Perspectives on Community with Inuit Living in Southern Quebec

The Qanuikkat Siqinirmiut? (QS) project is a five-year, mixed-methods research study about the health and wellbeing of Siqinirmiut (Inuit living in the South) of Quebec. The project is a collaboration between the Qavvivik Inuit Family and Community Health Centre, the Makivik Corporation and a research team based at Universit Laval. It is well understood that Inuit experience significant health disparities compared to non-Inuit in Canada. Inuit suffer more from a range of chronic and communicable diseases, problems linked to the impacts of historical changes on their lives and lands, and inadequate access to resources and conditions that support individual and community health. While several studies have described the health of people in Inuit Nunangat in recent years, none have looked at the health status of Inuit in southern Quebec. There is every reason to believe that health disparities experienced by Siqinirmiut are also significant. While we would expect that many of the health conditions afflicting Inuit in the North are also present in the South, the considerably different material and social conditions in the South likely influence health in distinct ways. Thus, the objective of the QS project is to better understand the particular conditions and status of health of Siqinirmiut.Qanuikkat锡钦尔米乌特（Qanuikkat Siqinirmiut，简称QS）项目是一项为期五年的混合方法研究，聚焦魁北克南部因纽特人——锡钦尔米乌特人（Siqinirmiut）的健康与福祉。本项目由Qavvivik因纽特家庭与社区健康中心（Qavvivik Inuit Family and Community Health Centre）、马基维克公司（Makivik Corporation）以及拉瓦尔大学（Université Laval）下属的研究团队合作开展。 众所周知，加拿大因纽特群体与非因纽特人群相比存在显著健康差距：他们更易罹患多种慢性与传染性疾病，此类健康问题与历史变迁对其生活与土地的影响、以及获取支持个人与社区健康的资源和条件不足密切相关。近年来虽有多项研究对因纽特努纳加特（Inuit Nunangat）地区因纽特人的健康状况进行了描述，但尚无研究关注魁北克南部因纽特人的健康水平。 有充分依据表明，锡钦尔米乌特人面临的健康差距同样不容忽视。尽管困扰北部因纽特人的诸多健康问题在南部地区同样可能存在，但南部截然不同的物质与社会环境很可能以独特方式影响居民健康。因此，QS项目的目标是更全面地了解锡钦尔米乌特人的特定健康状况与健康水平。