{"id":4666,"date":"2016-03-08T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2016-03-08T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T18:54:52","slug":"public-health-and-the-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/public-health-and-the-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Public health and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An editorial is calling for public health to play a larger role in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous women inquiry (MMIW). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Kirsten Patrick, a deputy editor at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canadian Medical Association Journal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">believes many factors underlying the interpersonal violence plaguing Aboriginal women and girls are linked to mental health issues, substance abuse, and other public health issues. She writes \u201caddressing interpersonal violence is not merely an issue of justice; it is also a public health concern.\u201d She believes there is a common cause underlying \u201cboth endemic interpersonal violence and health disparities in Canada\u2019s indigenous populations. There is no conversation to be had about one without a conversation about the other \u2026 because the root causes are the same\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2016\/02\/29\/cmaj.160117\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by\u00a0the\u00a0<em>CMAJ<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 29<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirsten Patrick, CMAJ Editorial team<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editorial is calling for public health to play a larger role in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous women inquiry (MMIW). Dr. Kirsten Patrick, a deputy editor at the Canadian Medical Association Journal believes many factors underlying the interpersonal violence plaguing Aboriginal women and girls are linked to mental health issues, substance abuse, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,2508,476,2509,1840],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-indigenous","tag-public-health","tag-social-welfare","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}