Health committee Certainly that's something we hear from our partners. Our co-coordinator of this project, Teri Morrow, is a dietitian whose job has been health promotion among urban aboriginal children, for the most part. My best answer is that it depends on what's going on in that community.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee I'm not sure. I don't know that we have any expectations of government in this respect. What we're trying to do is show that we have a model that we think can improve how systems work; I guess we would hope that this model would be replicated. We recognize that local contexts are
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee Certainly, from what we've seen—and others know much better than we do—there are resources that our local partners are missing or would like to have. That said, part of what we're trying to aim at is finding ways in which the community, and the system as a whole, can make use of
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee As I said, our focus is on children who are living primarily in off-reserve areas, although we recognize that those children are often connected in important ways to nearby first nations. Certainly others would know much more than I do about the situation on reserves, and especia
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee We can only speak in terms of averages, of course. The outcome we're interested in here is obesity, and in this case it looks as though an off-reserve aboriginal child probably has about twice the risk of obesity. We can't really think of obesity as separate. Obesity comes bundle
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee I'm not, not off the top of my head.
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee I should preface my answer by saying that our intervention plan is focused mainly on improving the way that the system serves these kids. The reason is that the evidence, such as it is, tends to show that the things that are effective are usually developed locally in response to
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke
Health committee Good morning, Madam Chair, vice-chairs, and members of the committee. It's our pleasure to appear before you today to help you with this important work. Rising rates of obesity, as this committee is very well aware, are among the most important public health problems we currentl
February 9th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Martin Cooke