Spirituality, health equity, and structural justice:

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Tue Nov 19 2024 at 11:30 am to 01:00 pm

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University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (FTX 202) | Ottawa, ON

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In Canada, the resources needed to enjoy good health are unequally distributed. In child populations, this includes needs such as income, housing and food security, which are fundamental indicators of health equity. Yet, children can have their basic tangible needs met and still be far from living fulfilling lives. Intangible resources—such as spirituality—are also essential to flourishing.

The term spirituality often carries with it “conceptual baggage”, which may be one of the reasons that the spiritual dimension of health is essentially ignored by mainstream health agendas and not often considered in a robust manner in children’s rights discussions. This is short sighted. Spirituality is an important indicator of health equity, and the 35-year anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognizes spirituality four times, is an opportune time to consider the relationship between spirituality, structural justice, and flourishing.

The goals of this presentation are: 1) to locate the spiritual dimensions of a child’s life in the context of Canadian health research and children’s rights discourse ; 2) using contemporary evidence and social determinants of health thinking, to position spirituality as inseparable from rights and justice; and 3) to think collaboratively about how this thinking could be used by duty bearers to create a country in which all children have the resources they need to thrive.


Dr. Valerie Michaelson is an Associate Professor in Health Sciences at Brock University. Her collaborative and change-generating research focuses on health equity, children’s rights and spiritual rights. In addition to studying how social, structural and cultural contexts shape health and well-being, Dr. Michaelson also explores the complex ways that culture, religion and spirituality shape human beliefs, attitudes and behaviours, including in relation to colonization. The majority of her transdisciplinary and reciprocal research focuses on child and adolescent populations.



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Titre : « Spiritualité, équité en matière de santé et justice structurelle : quelques réflexions sur les droits de l'enfant ».


Résumé : Au Canada, les ressources nécessaires pour jouir d'une bonne santé sont inégalement réparties. Dans les populations d'enfants, cela inclut des besoins tels que le revenu, le logement et la sécurité alimentaire, qui sont des indicateurs fondamentaux de l'équité en matière de santé. Pourtant, les enfants peuvent avoir leurs besoins matériels de base satisfaits et être encore loin de vivre une vie épanouie. Les ressources immatérielles, comme la spiritualité, sont également essentielles à l'épanouissement.

Le terme « spiritualité “ est souvent associé à un ” bagage conceptuel », qui peut être l'une des raisons pour lesquelles la dimension spirituelle de la santé est largement ignorée par les programmes de santé traditionnels et n'est pas souvent prise en compte dans les discussions sur les droits de l'enfant. La spiritualité est pourtant un indicateur important de l'équité en matière de santé, et le 35e anniversaire de la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant, qui reconnaît la spiritualité à quatre reprises, est un moment opportun pour examiner la relation entre la spiritualité, la justice structurelle et l'épanouissement.

Les objectifs de cette présentation sont les suivants : 1) situer les dimensions spirituelles de la vie d'un enfant dans le contexte de la recherche canadienne sur la santé et du discours sur les droits de l'enfant ; 2) à l'aide de données contemporaines et de la réflexion sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé, positionner la spiritualité comme indissociable des droits et de la justice ; et 3) réfléchir ensemble à la manière dont cette réflexion pourrait être utilisée pour créer un pays dans lequel tous les enfants disposent des ressources dont ils ont besoin pour s'épanouir.


Valerie Michaelson est professeure associée en sciences de la santé à l'Université Brock. Ses recherches collaboratives et porteuses de changement se concentrent sur l'équité en matière de santé, les droits de l'enfant et les droits spirituels. Outre l'étude de la manière dont les contextes sociaux, structurels et culturels façonnent la santé et le bien-être, la professeure Michaelson explore également les façons complexes dont la culture, la religion et la spiritualité façonnent les croyances, les attitudes et les comportements humains, y compris en relation avec la colonisation. La majorité de ses recherches transdisciplinaires et collaboratives se concentrent sur les populations d'enfants et d'adolescents.

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