Disparities in Social Determinants of Health Outcomes and Behaviours between Older Adults in Alaska and the Contiguous US: Evidence from a National Survey

Alternate Title
Disparities in Social Determinants of Health Outcomes and Behaviors between Older Adults in Alaska and the Contiguous US: Evidence from a National Survey
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven A. Cohen
Ana X. Talamas
Natalie J. Sabik
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study uses data from 165 295 respondents from the 2016 Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System to assess how sociodemographic factors affect healthy ageing in Alaskan older adults. Findings suggest some significant differences between Alaska the continental U.S. exist and that programs designed to reduce disparities and promote healthy behaviours should be tailored to fit the target population.
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Disproportionately Higher Unintentional Injury Mortality among Alaska Native People, 2006-2015

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gretchen Day
Peter Holck
Hillary Strayer
Kathryn Koller
Timothy Thomas
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 77, 2018, p. article no. 1422671
Description
Five leading causes of death were: poisoning, motor vehicle-traffic crashes, drowning, natural environment and transport-other (land). Analysis found that one third of deaths occurred when an individual had travelled away from his or her community to more urban areas.
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Disseminating Information on Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in a Tribal Health Setting: A Case Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jaedon P. Avey
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Lisa G. Dirks
Laurie A. Moore
Barbara Beach ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Special Issue, 2018, pp. 43-61
Description
Describes pilot test and focuses on activities at the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum, including process of tailoring products for the community audience, audience response to delivered presentation, and feedback about future dissemination.
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Disseminating Research in Rural Yup'ik Communities: Challenges and Ethical Considerations in Moving From Discovery to Intervention Development

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Inna Rivkin
Joseph Trimble
Ellen D.S. Lopez
Samuel Johnson
Eliza Orr
James Allen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 20958
Description
Study aimed to improve cultural sensitivity in order to decrease the psychological stress resulting from rapid changes in culture and lifestyle patterns.
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Disseminating Research on Community Health and Well-being: A Collaboration between Alaska Native Villages and the Academe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Augusto Legaspi
Eliza Orr
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 24-43
Description
Focuses on disseminating research findings to communities in a manner that is culturally appropriate and useful, and also looks at maintaining a good relationship between the Alaska communities and the Center for Alaska Native Heath Research.
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Distribution of Y Chromosomes Among Native North Americans: A Study of Athapaskan Population History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ripan Singh Malhi
Angelica Gonzalez-Oliver
Kari Brit Schroeder
Brian M. Kemp
Jonathan A. Greenberg ... [et al.]
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 137, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 412-424
Description
Study results suggest the Y chromosome population structure of Native North America was significantly altered by European admixture which has resulted in a decreasing gradient of haplogroup R from the northeast to the southwest of North America.
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Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination

Alternate Title
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nelson H. H. Graburn
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 365-368
Description
Book review of: Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank.
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Doing Everything and Nothing: A First-Year Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeane Breinig
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 103-112
Description
Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”
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Doing Research on Effective Cross-Cultural Teaching: The Teacher Tale

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Kleinfeld
G. Williamson McDiarmid
Steve Grubis
William Parrett
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 61, no. 1, The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students ..., Autumn, 1983, pp. 86-108
Description
Discusses several components of cross-cultural teachers: identification and criteria of effective teachers and the important knowledge to have.
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Domestic Function and Inupiaq Households

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Craver
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 1, 2004, pp. 49-52
Description
Looks at changes in domestic composition, functions, networks, and cultural ideologies.
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Domestication of the Ivory Tower

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ray Barnhardt
Anthropology and Education Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 238-249
Description
Looks at the X-CED (Cross-Cultural Education Development Program) and the experiences of faculty over the past 25 years.
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(Draft) Resource Revenue Regimes Around the Circumpolar North: A Gap Analysis

Alternate Title
ReSDA Gap Analysis Report ; no.4
Resources and Sustainable Development n the Arctic (ReSDA) Gap Analysis Report ; no.4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lee Huskey
Chris Southcott
Description
Looks at the intuitive belief that resource development results in wealth and well-being for region when in fact it often leads to a decrease and other problems (resource curse).
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An Early Arctic Small Tool Tradition Structure From Interior Northwestern Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dan Odess
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 13-27
Description
Reports on the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition site and the relationships between the various techno-complexes that make up the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition.
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"Eating for Outsiders": Cancer Causation Discourse Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska

Alternate Title
Alaska Native Discourse on Cancer Causation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joslyn Cassady
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 4, 2008, pp. 374-383
Description
Argues for culturally appropriate prevention and detection programs and understanding of the power relationships in which policies and recommendations are made.
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The Economic Status of Alaska Native Women

Alternate Title
Report on the Economic Status of Alaska Native Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cheryl Thomas
Description
Compares the economic well being of Alaskan Native American women to that of other women in the state and nation.
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The Economy of the North

Alternate Title
Statistical Analyses (Statistics Norway) ; 84
E-Books
Author/Creator
Solveig Glomsrød
Gérad Durhaime
Andrée Caron
Lars Lindholt
Helen McDonald ... [et al.]
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Eddie with FAS: Getting What he Needs in a Remote Alaskan Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maureen F. Harwood
Judith Smilg Kleinfeld
Northern Review, no. 25/26, Governance in the Provincial Norths, Summer, 2005, pp. 161-171
Description
Looks at the diagnostic descriptions for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), outlines the needs of a person with FAS across a life span, discusses how these needs are met in rural Alaska, and describes what Alaska and other remote communities still need to help people with FAS.
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Editorial [American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 2, no. 3]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Spero M. Manson
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 2, no. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 5-6
Description
Introduces a special issue of the American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research which includes a manuscript by Dr. Foulks followed by contributions by leading scholars in the mental health field.
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Editorial: [Indigenous Affairs: Arctic Oil and Gas Development]

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mark Nutall
Kathrin Wessendorf
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2-3, Arctic Oil and Gas Development, 2006, pp. 4-6
Description
Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on major oil and gas developmental projects in the arctic and how the lives and lands of the Indigenous people are affected. To access this article, scroll down to page 4.
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Editorial: Indigenous Knowledges and Education (ECE-12)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo-ann Archibald
Mark Aquash
Vicki Kelly
Laura Cranmer
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and Education, 2009, pp. 1-5
Description
Introduction to educational challenges and successes in relation to Indigenous knowledges and education.
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Editorial-Indigenous Pedagogies: Resurgence and Restoration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy L. Friedel
Jo-Ann Archibald
Ramona Big Head
Georgina Martin
Marissa Muñoz
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-6, 221, 223-224
Description
Editorial introduction to this issue on decolonizing systems of teaching and learning, educational spaces and the enactment of culture, and pedagogies of wholeness.
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Editors' Introduction: Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Saylors
Nelson Jiim Ana Vanesa Plasencia
Derek Smith
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 241-246
Description
Overview of issue articles highlighting traditional support and innovative projects for healthier lifestyles, the state of HIV in communities, information on current rates of HIV, substance use, STIs and other risk factors.
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Effect of Special Diabetes Program for Indians Funding on System Changes in Diabetes Care and Outcomes Among American Indian/Alaska Native People 1994-2004

Alternate Title
Diabetes Care and Control in Alaska Native People
Effect of Special Diabetes Program for Indians Funding on System Changes in Diabetes Care and Outcomes among American Indian / Alaska Native people 1994-2004
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meera Ramesh
Cynthia Schraer
Ann Marie Mayer
Elvin Asay
Kathryn Koller
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 2-3, June 2008, pp. 203-212
Description
Found that the number of people with diabetes increased as the percentage of patients receiving foot, eye and dental exams decreased.
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Effective Education to Meet Special Needs of Native Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Bennett
L. Madison Coombs
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 3, no. 3, May 1964, pp. [21-25]
Description
Discusses goals, issues and various options available when educating Native American children.
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Effectiveness of a Tobacco Quitline in an Indigenous Population: A Comparison Between Alaska Native People and Other First-Time Quitline Callers Who Set a Quit Date

Alternate Title
Effectiveness of a Quitline for Alaska Native People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Myde Boles
Kristen Rohde
Haiou He
Julie E. Maher

Michael J. Stark
Andrea Fenaughty
Tari O’Connor
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 68, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 170-181
Description
Looks at a comparative study of the acceptability and effectiveness of a tobacco cessation quitline (QL) among Alaska Native people and non-Alaska Native people.
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