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Social Epidemiology of Trauma Among 2 American Indian Reservation Populations
Spero M. Manson, Janette Beals, Suzell A. Klein, Calvin D. Croy American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 95, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 851-856. Concludes that Aboriginal people in the United States live in an adverse and violent environment that places them at higher risk for exposure to traumatic experiences. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Social Indicators in Surveys of Urban Aboriginal Residents in Saskatoon
Alan B. Anderson, Cara Spence Social Indicators Research, Vol. 85, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 39-52. Discusses the various social indicators employed in the seven Bridges and Foundations Project surveys, which probed into the views of local Aboriginal residents reguarding quality of life, living conditions and affordable housing. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Social Justice as a Public Health Imperative for Kānaka Maoli
Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula, Andrea H. Nacapoy, Ka'ohimanu Dang AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2009, pp. 116-137. Discusses the health & socio-economic factors effecting the well-being of the Indigenous people of Hawaii. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Sociodemographic and Health Care System Factors Influencing Cervical Cancer Screening among Young American Indian Women
Teshia G. Arambula Solomon, Nell H. Gottlieb Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 31-46. Examines factors influencing the quality of health care, more specifically cancer prevention and detection, provided to Native American Women. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Some Aspects of American Indian Migration
Alan L. Sorkin Social Forces, Vol. 48, No. 2, December 1969, pp. 243-250. Study focuses on movement from reservations to urban areas, finding that migration out did not significantly change unemployment situation on reservations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Spatial and Socioeconomic Analysis of First Nation People in Toronto CMA
Joe T. Darden, Sameh M. Kamel Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002, pp. 239-267. Findings from the 1996 Census revealed that while Aboriginal peoples are not segregated, they do occupy poorer quality neighbourhoods at a higher rate than non-Aboriginal people in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Spatial and Temporal Trends of Contaminants in Canadian Arctic Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Review
B. Braune, D. Muir, B. DeMarch, M. Gamberg, K. Poole, et al. The Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 230, No. 1-3, 1999, pp. 145-207. Summarizes the data collected from a 6 year program in 1991 to 1997, to investigate the presence of contaminants in Canadian Arctic freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Statistical Information Pertaining to Socio-Economic Conditions of Northern Aboriginal People in Canada: Sources and Limitations
Senada Delic Northern Review, No. 30, Spring, 2009, pp. 119-150. Focuses on census and post-census surveys such as the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the related Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA). More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Still Invisible: Enumeration of Indigenous Peoples in Census Questionnaires Internationally
Evelyn J. Peters Aboriginal Policy Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011, pp. 68-100. Discusses the lack of accurate and consistent data and collection issues associated with enumerating Indigenous peoples. [Find offline items for Peters, Evelyn J.] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Suicidal Ideation: The Role of Economic and Aboriginal
Cultural Status After Multivariate Adjustment
Mark Lemstra, Cory Neudorf, Johan Mackenbach, Tanis Kershaw, Ushasri Nannapaneni, Christina Scott Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 54, No. 9, September 2009, pp. 589-595. Looks at data collected on suicidal indicators including demographics, socio-economic status, cultural status, behaviours, life stress, and health care use. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Suicide Among Canadian Aboriginal Peoples
Laurence J. Kirmayer Transcultural Psychiatry Research Review, Vol. 31, March 1994, pp. 3-58. Looks at research on suicide and attempted suicide among Canadian Aboriginal peoples, and reviews culturally appropriate interventions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction
Carol Miller American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 43-65. Statistics show that the Aboriginal population is significantly younger and growing more rapidly than the general population of the United States. Statistics also show that it is a population significantly poorer and more at risk in terms of accidents, suicides, homicides, and deaths linked to alcoholism. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Thule Winter Site Demography in the High Arctic
Robert W. Park American Antiquity, Vol. 62, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 273-284. Discusses lack of consensus on settlement patterns based on wide variation in number of dwellings. Study of a site at Porden Point, N.W.T. found structures were not all constructed or occupied at the same time. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"The Time of the Most Polar Bears": A Co-management Conflict in Nunavut
Martha Dowsley, George Wenzel Arctic, Vol. 61, No. 2, June 2008, pp. 177-180. Looks at the challenges and conflicts in co-management systems to conserve polar bears, including climate change and overhunting. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Tobacco, Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use Among Aboriginal Youth Living Off-reserve: Results From the Youth Smoking Survey
Tara Elton-Marshall, Scott T. Leatherdale, Robin Burkhalter CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 183, No. 8, May 17, 2011, pp. E480-E486. Study on the prevalence of smoking, the use of other substances by Aboriginal youth, and the increased health risk compared with non-Aboriginal youth. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Traditional Food Attributes Must be Included in Studies of Food Security in the Canadian Arctic
Jill Lambden, Olivier Receveur, Harriet V. Kuhnlein International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol. 66, No. 4, September 2007, pp. 308-319. Found that traditional food is regarded as natural and fresh, tasty, healthy and nutritious, inexpensive, and socially and culturally beneficial. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Traditional Medicine and Restoration of Wellness Strategies
Dawn Martin Hill Journal of Aboriginal Health, Vol. 5, No. 1, November 2009, pp. 26-42. Explores literature that suggests traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge as protective factors for at risk Aboriginal communities and populations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health Among Two American Indian Populations
Lonnie A. Nelson, Dorothy A. Rhoades, Carolyn Noonan, Spero M. Manson, AI-SUPERPFP Team Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, Vol. 22, No. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 105-112. Describes prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated neuropsychiatric problems among two communities, one in the Southwest U.S., and one in the U.S. Northern Plains. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Tribal Benefits Counseling Program: Expanding Health Care Opportunities for Tribal Members
Donna Friedsam, Gretchen Haug, Mike Rust, Amy Lake American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 93, No. 10, October 2003, pp. 1634-1636. Concludes that trained benefits counselors at tribal clinics can substantially increase third-party insurance coverage among patients. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Undercounting Native Americans: The 1980 Census and the Manipulation of Racial Identity in the United States
Jack D. Forbes Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 1990, pp. 2-26. Examines assimilation policies by the U.S. Bureau of the Census regarding the racial character of Native Americans from 1969 up unitl 1980. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Underestimation of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Maine American Indians: The Role of Procedural and Data Errors
Judith M. Graber, Brenda E. Corkum, Nancy Sonnenfeld, Paul L. Kuehnert American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 95, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 827-830. Evaluates racial coding on death certificates and the effects of coding errors on estimation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well-Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada
Michael J. Kral, Lori Idlout, J. Bruce Minore, Ronald J. Dyck, Laurence J. Kirmayer American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 48, No. 3-4, 2011, pp. 426-438. Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
An Unpublished Map Made by John Cartwright between 1768 and 1773 Showing Beothuck Indian Settlements and Artifacts and Allowing a New Population Estimate
Ingeborg Marshall Ethnohistory, Vol. 24, No. 3, Summer, 1977, pp. 223-249. Describes Cartwright's explorations and reports in Beothuck territory. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Urban Living is not Associated with Better Birth and Infant Outcomes Among Inuit and First Nations in Quebec
Fabienne Simonet, Russell Wilkins, Maureen Heaman, Janet Smylie, Patricia Martens, et al. The Open Women's Health Journal, Vol. 4, 2010, pp. 25-31. Looks at the differences in rural versus urban birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Quebec. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Urban Tradition Among Native Americans
Jack Forbes American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 15-27. Contends that many Native American peoples have lived highly urbanized lives for many millennium, thus dispelling the myth that all these people live in rural areas with a low density of population. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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