A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Dr. Nickel is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Research Scientist and Associate Director at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Scientist at the Children s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, and Co-Director of the Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC). Nickel received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles and his PhD in Maternal and Child Health Policy from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Nickel is an applied population health scientist. He uses administrative data to conduct health and social policy research. Nickel s research program centres on examining how social and structural determinants impact population health and well-being and health and social inequities. Within this framework he has conducted evaluation research looking at prog
WINNIPEG The health of First Nations children in Manitoba is lagging far behind other children in the province according to a new study. The study released Wednesday called Our Children, Our Future: The Health and Well-Being of First Nations Children in Manitoba is a joint project by the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre, and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. It takes a village to raise a child, and I say this village called the province and federal government is failing, but it’s never too late to start, said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas.