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Victoria L. Edge
Researcher at Public Health Agency of Canada
Publications - 54
Citations - 2668
Victoria L. Edge is an academic researcher from Public Health Agency of Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Public health. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 54 publications receiving 2289 citations. Previous affiliations of Victoria L. Edge include Health Canada & Ontario Veterinary College.
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"From this place and of this place:" climate change, sense of place, and health in Nunatsiavut, Canada.
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox,Sherilee L. Harper,James D. Ford,Karen Landman,Karen Houle,Victoria L. Edge +5 more
TL;DR: The findings illustrated that climate change is negatively affecting feelings of place attachment by disrupting hunting, fishing, foraging, trapping, and traveling, and changing local landscapes-changes which subsequently impact physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being.
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Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom:
TL;DR: In this paper, a transdisciplinary team of indigenous and non-indigenous individuals came together in early 2009 to develop a digital narrative method to engage a remote community in northern Labrador in a research project examining the linkages between climate change and physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being.
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The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox,Sherilee L. Harper,Victoria L. Edge,Karen Landman,Karen Houle,James D. Ford +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the affective dimensions of climate change, and argued that changes in the land and climate directly impact emotional health and well-being, and that these changes elicited feelings of anxiety, sadness, depression, fear, and anger.
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Climate change and mental health: an exploratory case study from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox,Sherilee L. Harper,James D. Ford,Victoria L. Edge,Karen Landman,Karen Houle,Sarah Blake,Charlotte Wolfrey +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of climate change on mental health and well-being in an Inuit context were explored through a multi-year, community-led, exploratory case study conducted in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada.
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Weather, water quality and infectious gastrointestinal illness in two Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut, Canada: potential implications for climate change.
TL;DR: This study is the first to systematically gather, analyse and compare baseline data on weather, water quality and health in Nunatsiavut, and illustrates the need for high quality temporal baseline information to allow for detection of future impacts of climate change on regional Inuit human and environmental health.