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Housing inadequacy in rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities

Housing and house conditions on First Nation communities in Canada are important determinants of health for community members. Little is known about rural First Nation housing in the Canadian Prairies. The aim was to survey houses in two rural First Nation communities in Saskatchewan, Canada to unde...

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Autores principales: Kirychuk, Shelley, Russell, Eric, Rennie, Donna, Karunanayake, Chandima, Roberts, Clarice, Seeseequasis, Jeremy, Thompson, Brooke, McMullin, Kathleen, Ramsden, Vivian R., Fenton, Mark, Abonyi, Sylvia, Pahwa, Punam, Dosman, James A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000470
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author Kirychuk, Shelley
Russell, Eric
Rennie, Donna
Karunanayake, Chandima
Roberts, Clarice
Seeseequasis, Jeremy
Thompson, Brooke
McMullin, Kathleen
Ramsden, Vivian R.
Fenton, Mark
Abonyi, Sylvia
Pahwa, Punam
Dosman, James A.
author_facet Kirychuk, Shelley
Russell, Eric
Rennie, Donna
Karunanayake, Chandima
Roberts, Clarice
Seeseequasis, Jeremy
Thompson, Brooke
McMullin, Kathleen
Ramsden, Vivian R.
Fenton, Mark
Abonyi, Sylvia
Pahwa, Punam
Dosman, James A.
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description Housing and house conditions on First Nation communities in Canada are important determinants of health for community members. Little is known about rural First Nation housing in the Canadian Prairies. The aim was to survey houses in two rural First Nation communities in Saskatchewan, Canada to understand housing conditions, prevalence of mold/mildew and dampness, and sources, locations and frequency of mold and dampness. Surveys were conducted with an adult member of each household in 144 houses. Surveys assessed: size, age, and number of rooms in the house; number of individuals residing in the house; presence of mold/mildew and dampness, and sources, locations and frequency of mold and dampness. Houses were mostly two-bedrooms (25.7%) or more (67.4%). Thirty-one percent of houses had six or more people living in the house with crowding present in 68.8% of houses. Almost half of the houses (44.5%) were in need of major repairs. More than half of the houses had water or dampness in the past 12 months in which dripping/puddles and standing water were most commonly identified and were from surface water and plumbing. More than half of the houses indicated that this dampness caused damage. A smell of mold or mildew was present in over half of the houses (52.1%) and 73.3% of these houses indicated that this smell was always present. Housing adequacy including crowding, dampness, and mold are significant issues for houses in these two rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities. Housing inadequacy is more common in these rural communities as compared to Canadian statistics. Housing inadequacy is modifiable and is important to address for multiple reasons, but notably, as a social determinant of health. Federal government strategy to address and redress housing in First Nation communities in Canada is a fiduciary responsibility and critical to reconciliation.
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spelling pubmed-100212352023-03-17 Housing inadequacy in rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities Kirychuk, Shelley Russell, Eric Rennie, Donna Karunanayake, Chandima Roberts, Clarice Seeseequasis, Jeremy Thompson, Brooke McMullin, Kathleen Ramsden, Vivian R. Fenton, Mark Abonyi, Sylvia Pahwa, Punam Dosman, James A. PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article Housing and house conditions on First Nation communities in Canada are important determinants of health for community members. Little is known about rural First Nation housing in the Canadian Prairies. The aim was to survey houses in two rural First Nation communities in Saskatchewan, Canada to understand housing conditions, prevalence of mold/mildew and dampness, and sources, locations and frequency of mold and dampness. Surveys were conducted with an adult member of each household in 144 houses. Surveys assessed: size, age, and number of rooms in the house; number of individuals residing in the house; presence of mold/mildew and dampness, and sources, locations and frequency of mold and dampness. Houses were mostly two-bedrooms (25.7%) or more (67.4%). Thirty-one percent of houses had six or more people living in the house with crowding present in 68.8% of houses. Almost half of the houses (44.5%) were in need of major repairs. More than half of the houses had water or dampness in the past 12 months in which dripping/puddles and standing water were most commonly identified and were from surface water and plumbing. More than half of the houses indicated that this dampness caused damage. A smell of mold or mildew was present in over half of the houses (52.1%) and 73.3% of these houses indicated that this smell was always present. Housing adequacy including crowding, dampness, and mold are significant issues for houses in these two rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities. Housing inadequacy is more common in these rural communities as compared to Canadian statistics. Housing inadequacy is modifiable and is important to address for multiple reasons, but notably, as a social determinant of health. Federal government strategy to address and redress housing in First Nation communities in Canada is a fiduciary responsibility and critical to reconciliation. Public Library of Science 2022-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10021235/ /pubmed/36962499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000470 Text en © 2022 Kirychuk et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Russell, Eric
Rennie, Donna
Karunanayake, Chandima
Roberts, Clarice
Seeseequasis, Jeremy
Thompson, Brooke
McMullin, Kathleen
Ramsden, Vivian R.
Fenton, Mark
Abonyi, Sylvia
Pahwa, Punam
Dosman, James A.
Housing inadequacy in rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities
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title_short Housing inadequacy in rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities
title_sort housing inadequacy in rural saskatchewan first nation communities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000470
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