Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2019 Nov 28;9(11):e032601. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032601.
Inuit Nunangat is the Inuit homeland in Canada. It is comprised of four Inuit regions. Inuit residing in these areas experience greater social and economic inequities than the general Canadian population. Food security exemplifies this inequity and is a distinct determinant of Inuit health. Policy can play an integral role in health equity. However, demonstrating this role can be a complex task, especially when there are both national and regionally specific policies pertaining to each of the Inuit regions. This scoping review will focus on Nunatsiavut, located in northern Labrador. This region is situated within a complex policy space due to the national, provincial and regional governance structures, geographical location and the breadth of factors pertaining to food security. This scoping review aims to identify the range of policies pertaining to food security in Nunatsiavut and complete a directed content analysis to code each policy against the applicable dimension of food security.
The researchers will conduct a search strategy on the following four databases: MEDLINE (via Ovid), Embase (via Ovid), CINHAL and Scopus. A hand search of the relevant journals, conference abstracts and grey literature will be completed from April to October 2019. The following parameters will be extracted: a description of the policy, the organisation/institution that developed the policy, the definition of food security used or implied, and any stated intended targets or outcomes. The results will be compiled in a tabular form.
Ethics approval is not required as primary data will not be collected. The findings from this scoping review will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and public presentations. The results of this scoping review will be validated by a Nunatsiavut Government Advisory Group.
因纽特人努纳武特是加拿大的因纽特人聚居地。它由四个因纽特地区组成。居住在这些地区的因纽特人经历着比加拿大普通人口更大的社会和经济不平等。食品安全就是这种不平等的一个典型例子，也是因纽特人健康的一个重要决定因素。政策可以在健康公平中发挥重要作用。然而，证明这一作用可能是一项复杂的任务，尤其是当涉及到每个因纽特地区都有国家和地区特定政策时。本范围界定审查将集中在努纳武特的拉布拉多北部。由于国家、省和地区治理结构、地理位置以及与食品安全相关的各种因素，该地区处于一个复杂的政策环境中。本范围界定审查旨在确定与努纳武特食品安全相关的政策范围，并对每个政策进行定向内容分析，根据食品安全的适用维度对其进行编码。
研究人员将在以下四个数据库中进行搜索策略：MEDLINE（通过 Ovid）、Embase（通过 Ovid）、CINHAL 和 Scopus。2019 年 4 月至 10 月，将完成对相关期刊、会议摘要和灰色文献的手工搜索。将提取以下参数：政策描述、制定政策的组织/机构、使用或隐含的食品安全定义，以及任何规定的目标或预期结果。结果将以表格形式呈现。
由于不会收集原始数据，因此不需要伦理批准。本范围界定审查的结果将通过同行评议期刊和公开演讲进行传播。本范围界定审查的结果将由努纳武特政府咨询小组进行验证。
