Specific questions about health in First Nations & Inuit communities:

  1. How can Aboriginal peoples’ specific challenges in areas of health and learning as adults be better supported?
  2. What lessons can be learned from the experiences of First Nations and Inuit Peoples on health and their ways of learning that might be applied to other aspects of contemporary adult health challenges?

 

Specific questions about women who face unique barriers to accessing appropriate,
quality health care:

  1. What are the lessons to be learned from women’s health movements that might be applied to broader population health and adult education strategies?
  2. How does Canadian women’s health, particularly for women who are poor, aboriginal women, women whose first language is not English, immigrant and refugee women, women with low literacy skills, compare internationally?
  3. How does women’s literacy impact on their role as gatekeepers for family health?

 

Questions about other future Issues/Trends for the HLKC

  1. What issues related to work-place health and safety among adults with low- literacy skills should be considered?
  2. How will the Health and Learning KC collaborate with the Adult Learning KC in the Atlantic Region and avoid duplication? Also with the other KCs?
  3. How can learning from the exemplary projects and programs across Canada and beyond be collected from the above sectors, and others, to inform future research and practice?
  4. How can we impact future policy based on what we already know?