Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series; 04-019
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Policy and Research Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of study which conducted survey of service providers and facilities in select Canadian cities, and five individuals with the disease. Found that existing facilities were under-utilized and more culturally relevant options were needed.
Originally published in 2004, revised in 2010.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 4, September 2010, pp. 361-372
Description
Comments on the increase of hypertension as a growing health challenge in Nunavik due to a population believed to have a predisposition for cerebrovascular disease.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 65, no. 4, 2006, pp. 297-304
Description
Concludes that although 23-valent pneumococcal polysacchardie vaccine was useful in controlling an outbreak of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Nunavik, better vaccines are needed.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Literary Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. 5-12
Description
Introduces the special section of the journal that deals with how linguistic barriers affect exchanges between Indigenous artists.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 18-24
Description
Discusses the need to improve socioeconomic conditions as well as perinatal and infant care for Aboriginal peoples in Quebec.
Examines the high cancer rates in Inuit populations and highlights challenges to receiving care, from diagnosis through to survivorship or palliative care.
In-depth look at the process and strategy of claims made against the Federal government by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) and the Makivik Corporation for the killing of Inuit sled dogs between 1950 and 1970.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 55-81
Description
Research conducted over 3 months, involving 21 participants, to examine what are the health-related needs of pre- and postnatal women in Rapid Lake, Quebec and how could these needs be met taking into account available resources.
Discusses a painting that appears to be a nineteenth-century Romantic landscape but is in fact a critique of that style of painting which deconstructs both colonial representations of Native Americans and colonialism’s westernization of Native gender and sexuality.
Describes the land- and culture-based healing program developed by the Cree Nation of Chisasibi which promotes personal, family and community wellness rooted in the Cree way of life. Participants spend two- to three-weeks at a bush camp located 500 km east the community.
Looks at a study led by Dr. Pierre Haddad, working with Cree Elders, to develop plant therapies for healing complications of diabetes in a culturally respective way.
Northern Review, no. 38, Political and Economic Change in Canada’s Provincial North, 2014, pp. 6-54
Description
Review of government structures and regional operations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014, p. article no. 24918
Description
Study involved secondary analysis of 3 cross-sectional studies as part of the Multi-Community Environment and Health Longitudinal Study in Iyiyuu Aschii and focus groups from Cree Nation of Mistissini, Cree Nation of Eastmain, and Wemindji Cree First Nation.
Focuses on four programs: 'Journey into Wellness' (J2W) project of the Battlefords Tribal Council Indian Health Services; 'Projet Pairs-aidants' in Uashat mak Mani-utenam (Québec); 'Kayaking and Youth Support' in Hope and Nain, Labrador; and the Hobbema Community Cadet Corps Program in Alberta.
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 1, Inaugural Edition, Summer, 2006, pp. 65-74
Description
Reviews the CACTUS's (Centre d’Action Communautaire auprès des Toxicomanes Utilisateurs de Seringues) experience with three different "collaborative" research initiatives.