First Nation communities with better social support have a lower risk of heart diseases.
A paper from the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds First Nations (CAHHM) cohort study was published by the journal Lancet Planetary Health, explaining about the link between social support and heart health among First Nations people. Read more.
Several research studies indicate a robust link in which social support can be protective for health. But the specificity of this relationship is yet to be discovered in the future studies. Ethica Data has been involved with multiple research studies in this domain, such as the relation between social isolation and Schizophrenia, and will be contributing in the next generation of research discoveries which are crucial in order to better tailor support interventions that can impact on physical health outcomes.