Mylène Riva's research while affiliated with McGill University and other places

... Social relationships are critical to individual and community well-being for Inuit (Fletcher et al., 2022;Richmond, 2009). International studies and research carried out with Inuit have highlighted the negative impacts of overcrowding on mental health (Evans et al., 2003;Gray et al., 2016;Riva et al., 2014a) with the weakening of social support posited as one of the mechanisms explaining this association (Evans & Lepore, 1993;Wells & Harris, 2007;Riva et al., 2014b). ...

... The education strengthening program character consists of three bases: class base, school culture base, and community (Ika & Putranti, 2019;Maisyaroh et al., 2023;Poliakova et al., 2022). Strengthening character education in the classroom can be done by linking learning indicators with the characters to be developed. ...

... Among Inuit adults who were rehoused to a new dwelling, psychological distress and perceived stress were significantly lower 15 to 18 months after the move . The main predictors of psychological distress improvement were the reduction in the number of adults per household and the increase in sense of home (Perreault et al., 2022a). However, two recent longitudinal studies did not observe a significant association between overcrowding measured at baseline and psychological health measured at follow-up for Inuit adolescents in Nunavik (Pepin et al., 2018) and Greenlandic adults (Hansen et al., 2020). ...

... This mediation was significant for women but not for men. More recently, a qualitative study conducted in Nunavut showed that living in overcrowded conditions implies constant negotiations for limited space, food, and water, conditions in which people feel they lack control and that instil a sense of "powerlessness" (Perreault et al., 2022b). The study suggests that this ultimately leads to social tensions that undermine supportive family relationships and mental well-being, a finding consistent with the theoretical model originally proposed by Evans and Lepore (1993). ...

... At the federal level, the House of Representatives has passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act in April 2022, and this act is currently waiting for Senate's decision. One of the most important concerns about these legalization trends is their potential negative effect on youth (Lachance, Belanger, Riva, & Ross, 2021;O'Grady, Iverson, Suleiman, & Rhee, 2022). Studies have argued that recreational marijuana legalization should increase the availability of marijuana, reduce its cost, and create a more positive perception of marijuana use, which results in facilitating youth marijuana use (Leung, Chiu, Chan, Stjepanovic, & Hall, 2019;Lachance et al., 2021). ...

... Despite Canada being one of the largest energy producers in the world, not all Canadians can attain or afford adequate levels of energy services at home to meet their needs, maintain healthy indoor temperatures, and live a decent life-a situation known as energy poverty (Bouzarovski & Petrova, 2015;Thomson et al., 2017a;Simcock et al., 2016). Indeed, depending on the indicator, some 6% to 19% of Canadian households face energy poverty (Riva et al., 2021). Energy poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that emerges from a combination of factors, such as household income and the practices and needs of household members; the type, conditions, and energy efficiency of the dwelling; economic and political factors such as energy tariffs, available energy sources, and governance; and climate-related hazards and events that can increase or compromise energy needs (Bouzarovski et al., 2021;Hernandez, 2016;Middlemiss, 2019). ...

... Key determinants include the quality of youth development, culture and language, mental wellness, and the environment (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, 2014). Similar determinants were identified in the community component of the Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Inuit Health Survey (hereafter, Q2017 survey), a qualitative investigation of Inuit conceptions of health in Nunavik (Fletcher et al., 2021). In practice, these determinants take the form of three pillars identified by Inuit as central to their wellbeing: the family, talking/communication, and traditional Inuit cultural values and practices (Kral et al., 2011). ...

... In contrast to the emphasis on individuality in much of Western society, the idea of a healthy person in the traditional Inuit culture gives a central role to connections among individuals and to place, a vision that has been called 'ecocentric' (as opposed to egocentric) [49,51]. According to Kirmayer (2009), the identity of an Inuk person develops through constant transactions with his or her environment, which includes other human beings, animals, and the land. ...

... Articles available in searchable databases will largely use western definitions of health, but Indigenous definitions of health can vary by tribal community [21][22][23][24][25]. Although definitions vary across tribes, many Indigenous communities consider several aspects of health such as physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual as commonly seen in the medicine wheel [26]. ...

... Sampling year also strongly influenced PCB serum concentration, due to the decline in PCB use, as diffusely reported in the international literature (Xue et al. 2014;Nøst et al. 2019;Adamou et al. 2020;Polachova et al. 2021;Xu et al. 2022). In our study, for each 1-year increase in sampling year, there was an estimated decrease in NDL 6 -PCB concentration of 11 ng/g lipid, considering age in the model. ...