TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Drowning in the social determinants of health: understanding policy's role in high rates of drowning in Aboriginal communities in Canada
JO  - Aboriginal policy studies
A1  - Giles, Audry R.
A1  - Brooks Cleator, Lauren
A1  - McGuire-Adams, Tricia
A1  - Darroch, Francine
SP  - 198
EP  - 213
VL  - 3
IS  - 1-2
N2  - Within Canada, Aboriginal peoples drown at much higher rates than non-Aboriginal peoples (Health Canada, 2001). Drowning is commonly understood as a problem that has its roots in individuals' failure to learn to swim, a failure of adults to supervise children properly, or a failure to engage with safety practices (such as wearing a lifejacket or boating only when sober). This understanding of aquatic-related injury reflects the neo- liberal tendency to assign individual blame for poor health, rather than viewing health as being produced within particular socio-historico-politico environments. In this paper we use Bacchi's (2007) "What's the problem" approach to policy analysis to argue that it is misguided to understand high rates of drowning in Aboriginal communities as being caused primarily by the aforementioned factors, as they fail to account for the ways in which social determinants influence Aboriginal peoples' health.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1923-3299
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5663/aps.v3i1-2.21706
ID  - ref1
ER  -