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Indigenous Health Issue: DIABETES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Type 2: Production of insulin significantly decreases over time
        
        Gestational Diabetes: Occurs during pregnancy and can cause some complications during pregnancy as well as at birth this type of diabetes can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in the mother and obesity in the child. (WHO, 2016)
  - - - Lack of physical activity/ sedentary lifestyle
        
        Race/ Ethnicity
        
        Family history
        
        Poor nutrition and diet
        
        Smoking
        
        Depression/poor mental health
- - - - Social and economic resource disparities
        
        Inequity in health care settings
        
        Lack of trust in healthcare workers
    - - Socio-economic factors
        
        Multiple determinants of health
        
        Historical trauma
        
        Colonization
        
        Lack of knowledge in regards to healthy food, nutrition and healthy lifestyle approaches
        
        Discrimination
- - - - Low income
  - - - Limited access to quality education
        
        Polluted air and water
  - - - History
        
        Political Climate
        
        Racism in healthcare settings
        
        Lack of physical activity opportunities
      - Geographical barriers
- - - - Residential Schools have had a massive impact on the Indigenous population as a whole in more ways then one. When specifically analyzing the link between diabetes and residential schools we can understand that the children that were sent there, were never properly taught about their culture, proper nutrition, the importance of physical activity and overall how to take care of themselves. These children grew into adults that lacked the skills and knowledge on these topics. This is major contributing factor as to why diabetes is now so rampant among their population. It is a sad realization that these children grew up without any of this education, and as they grew older they didn't have the proper tools to take care of themselves..
        
        Similarly to residential schools, the sixties scoop also made it hard for the Indigenous population to learn vital skills on proper self care. Children were taken away from their families and homes, stripped from their cultures and placed for adoption in non-indigenous homes.
        
        The effects of residential schools, the sixties scoop, colonization, and many other aspects of Canada failing the Indigenous population have a direct correlation as to why the Indigenous peoples of Canada are facing an epidemic of diabetes. Indigenous peoples were unjustly taken away from their entire identities, leaving them now with years and years of systemic traumas that will affect their population forever.