THE LIVED HISTORIES OF VULNERABLE PEOPLES: UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENTIAL SOCIAL HEALTH IN MARGINAL POPULATIONS.

许多国家的一个重大社会问题是土著社区的社会健康状况非常差。虽然每个土著社区都有相当大比例的人身体健康，但也经常有一部分人遭受药物滥用，特别是酗酒和吸汽油；自杀和家庭暴力。土著社区的这些社会健康状况不佳指标的比率可能远高于一般人口或一般人口中的少数族裔。这项比较研究项目将与四个土著群体合作：北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州的两个小群体，尽管历史上受到贫困和偏见的压力，但社会健康状况非常好，以及两个社会健康状况较差的北方(亚北极)群体(因纽特人和印第安人/因努人)。这项研究项目将专注于发展和提炼生活历史的概念：当地人看待和生活的各种方式，以及不太熟悉的过去和他们对即将到来的未来的感觉之间的联系。将对人们在日常生活中生活的这种持续的历史感进行审查，看看它在土著社区的生产和维护社会健康方面发挥了什么作用。

One significant social problem in many countries is the very poor social health in indigenous communities. While every native community has a substantial proportion of people who are healthy and well, there are also often a proportion of the population suffering from substance abuse, including especially from alcohol and gasoline sniffing; from suicide and domestic violence. The rates of these indicators of poor social health can be much higher in native communities than in either the general population or among ethnic minorities in the general population. This comparative research project will work with four native populations: two small groups in North and South Carolina, which although historically stressed by poverty and prejudice have very good social health, and two northern (sub-arctic) populations (both Inuit and Indian/Innu) where the social health is less good. This research project will focus on developing and refining the concept of lived history: the various ways native people see and live the connections between a not-quite-past and their sense of an impending future. This sense of a continuing history that people live, in their everyday lives, will be examined to see what role it plays in the production and maintenance of social health in native communities.