Index case
Culture
Healthy immigrant effect
Historical trauma
Social Ecological Model
Epidemiology
Obesogenic neighbourhood
Proximity, density, connectivity, and land use mix
Culturally competent care
Harm reduction strategy
Social determinants of health
The tendency for recent non-European immigrants to report their health as being above average upon arrival to Canada, but to report deterioration of their health over time
Factors such as housing, employment, socioeconomic status, and food availability that affect the health of populations
The first identified instance of a medical problem
The values, behaviours, practices, and assumptions learned from our membership in groups that share them
Neighbourhood designed in such a way as to increase the likelihood its inhabitants will be obese
Care that enables individuals, agencies, and systems to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. It involves first developing an understanding of cultural factors and then designing systems that effectively acknowledge those factors. It begins with an ability to critically reflect on one's own culturally based assumptions about one's self and others.
Negative health effects of mass trauma such as war and colonization that can be experienced for generations
Attempts to reduce the harmful effects of a behaviour when faced with the reality that the health-compromising behaviour cannot be eliminated from a population
Factors that are used to determine the healthiness of a built environment
The study of changing patterns of health and disease across populations and geographic areas
A model acknowledging that the individual is influenced by a collection of larger, inter-related, and cumulative contexts, such as organizations, communities, and governments
