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Health is a fundamental component of quality of life. How one defines what constitutes health affects the extent to which we understand its impacts on quality of life in communities. In this paper an expanded model of health which uses a participatory action approach will be proposed. This will be accomplished by: (1) briefly outlining the Canadian government’s changing vision of health; (2) examining core concepts related to participatory action research; (3) using a case example of a First Nation community in Northern Alberta to demonstrate the importance of the interrelationship between research and action in understanding the determinants of health and quality of life.
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Ismael, S.T. (2002). A Par Approach to Quality of Life: Modeling Health Through Participation. In: Zumbo, B.D. (eds) Advances in Quality of Life Research 2001. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9970-2_2
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