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Jerry White, Dan Beavon, and Nicholas Spence, eds.: Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Jerry White, Dan Beavon, and Nicholas Spence, eds. Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 2007. 246 pp. $36.95 sc.

The volume is one of a series of publications produced by the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium which is housed at the University of Western Ontario and headed by Dr. Jerry White. While the goal of this book is to provide the reader with information on the health and well-being of Aboriginal people in Canada, it approaches the topic from a methodological perspective. Put another way, while the reader will certainly learn about the well-being of Aboriginal people, the authors are really focused on trying to develop appropriate, comparative, and reliable measures of well-being. There is some contextual information about Aboriginal people in Canada, but the authors are more focused on developing a set of indicators. Why do I mention this? I do so because the...

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