Calls to Action: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Rights for Supportive Decision-Making in Healthcare
Examines what is needed to improve equitable health care for Indigenous populations in urban settings.
Examines the creation of the Native Human Services that provides an Indigenous worldview to address Indigenous educational and employment opportunities. To view article scroll down to page 41.
Examines what is needed to improve equitable health care for Indigenous populations in urban settings.
Describes the "differences in the hospitalization rates of First Nations children and youth living on and off reserve, Inuit children and youth living in Inuit Nunangat (excluding Nunavik), and Métis children and youth, relative to non-Indigenous children and youth".
Discusses ways to both address colonization and create a culturally relevant means to improve Indigenous health.
Examines the community-based opioid agonist treatment (OAT) program Naandwe Miikan (The Health Path).
Examines the vulnerability of Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and how this data can help guide policies to protect Indigenous populations.
Examines the use of treaty-based strategies to address the inequalities faced by Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Looks at cultural relevant programs, such as the RED Path project, to address Sexually Transmitted Blood Borne Infection (STBBI) prevention.
Discusses 29 recommendations, based on interviews with Indigenous people living with HIV, to address access inequality to HIV treatment in Canada.
Examines the First Nations Community Education Program as a collaborative effort to address Indigenous health inequalities in Canada.
Looks at the results of a 90-day dietary challenge, consisting of pre-contact food, by members of the Six Nations of the Grand River.
Focusses on the first-hand accounts of William Tomison, Hudson's Bay Company inland master, of epidemic in 1781 and 1782 at Cumberland House.
Contends that Inuit living in urban areas cannot replace the nutritional and cultural value of food acquired from the land, sea and air with store-bought foods.
NOTE: Also published as Journal of Aboriginal Health, Summer, 2015.
Looks at the underlining causes of and recommendations to address the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.
Using personal experiences to address colonialism and the systematic racism within the Canadian health care system.
Examines how culture helped shape the experiences of Indigenous populations during the COVID pandemic.
Looks at the lack of education provided for Indigenous people living HIV and how that limits their access to proper supports and testing.
Discuss the training of Indigenous facilitators to use traditional Indigenous medicine in compliment with contemporary treatments to reduce the effects of intergenerational trauma.
Examines traditional Indigenous healing methods and healers are need more today to help with Indigenous emotional, spiritual, physical and mental health. To view article scroll down to page 25.
Examines the response to the COVID pandemic by Canadian Indigenous communities as an example of their continued resilience.
Using interviews with first-language speaking Elders to improve the understanding of Indigenous worldviews on health and well-being in order to improve health programs within Indigenous communities.
Examines a doula training course that teaches palliative care specifically for Indigenous seniors.
Examines the changes to the delivery of Indigenous land based services to urban Indigenous communities during the COVID pandemic.
Examines the results of 11 studies on health care institutions that used culturally appropriate interventions when dealing with Indigenous patients.
Examines maternal and child health from an Indigenous perspectives.
An audio-visual learning tool about the use of Indigenous knowledge and customs by social workers as a means of healing for Indigenous populations.
Link included to the accompanying video on Youtube. (23:32)
Discusses educational and training approaches being employed to address racism experienced by Indigenous people seeking health care.
Looks at the importance of building relationships when conducting research with Indigenous women living with HIV.
Examines the combining of adventure, culture and, land as tools for healing Indigenous trauma across the world.
Reviews the use of traditional health interventions amongst Indigenous populations.
An overview of 14 studies analyzing anxiety, depression and attempted suicide amongst the Indigenous Canadian populations and the use of culture as a treatment method.
Discusses the barriers to healthy active living for Indigenous mothers from the Six Nations of the Grand River.
Examines the use of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research guidelines to guide the collaboration between researchers and Indigenous communities.
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.
Evaluates the use of more traditional holistic culturally sensitive approaches to address harm reduction for Indigenous people and communities.
Looks at a project that interweaves Indigenous and Western point-of-views to improve emergency care for northern communities.
Reviews reforms made by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to their Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review (OSP) processes and its impact on Indigenous health research.
Looks at the mental and emotional toll of trauma-based research for Indigenous researchers and provides a pathway for copying.
Looks at the various contributing factors for the increased smoking rates of Indigenous youth in Indigenous communities.
Discusses the impact of the COVID pandemic on the two-spirit Indigenous populations in Atlantic Canada and how the response of the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance (W2SA).
Looks at the use of land as a healing tool to improve the conditions of Indigenous substance abuse and homelessness.
Looks at the impact of decolonization within the mental health community amongst Canadian Indigenous populations.
Examines the role of ethnobotany in decolonization.
Reports on health statistics for Indigenous populations and the need for the collection of statistics that acknowledge Indigenous worldviews and practices.
Discusses a braid approach intervention, a combination of different Indigenous practices, as ways to address the needs of Indigenous youth suffering from mental health issues.