Socio-economic Patterns of Obesity Among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Ng, Carmina
  • Corey, Paul N.
  • Young, T. Kue

• "Objectives: Large disparities exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians in both obesity and socio-economic status (SES). The purpose of this paper was to assess associations between obesity and three indicators of SES–employment, education and income–in conjunction with demographic and lifestyle factors. Methods: Using the nationally-representative Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) cycle 2.2 (2004), among 334 off-reserve Aboriginal and 6,259 non-Aboriginal Canadians aged 25–64 years in the 10 provinces, obesity status was determined by body mass index derived from measured height and weight. Logistic regression was used to assess the relationships between socio-demographic variables and obesity status." (as cited in abstract)

• Date created

  2011-07-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Indigenous population
  • Obesity
  • Socio-economic factors
  • Lifestyle
  • Employment

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-c3kx-mz57

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International