Women with disabilities are also at higher risk of poverty than either women without disabilities or men with disabilities.
Aboriginal women are at high risk for poverty.
These data were enriched by interviews with seven Aboriginal women key informants, a summary of which appears in the text. There is now a well-established positive connection in the literature between income and health. Health Canada has adopted a Population Health approach, which includes twelve determinants of health, including both income and social status, and gender. Newer research has shown a connection not only between income and health, but between societal income inequalities and health. That is, those societies with greater economic inequalities have higher death rates than more egalitarian societies.