Native Illness Meanings: Depression and Suicide
Theses
Author/Creator
Cheryl Anne Walker
Description
Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Toronto, 1999.
Program designed for homeless and under-housed Indigenous peoples living in the downtown mid-west Toronto area. Evaluation consisted of environmental scan, developing a client profile, key informant interviews and focus groups.
Evaluates the use of more traditional holistic culturally sensitive approaches to address harm reduction for Indigenous people and communities.
Study showed that people's reasons for going to the Emergency Department for walk-in issues were shaped by complex social, economic and personal factors.