Articles » General
Circumpolar Health Supplements, no. 7, 2010
Description
Chronicle of the Congress held July 11-16, 2009 focusing on key health themes.
Profile of Aboriginal People in the Fraser Health Region 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Brodkin
Laurel Jesbamani
Leslie Schroeder
Jeet Sivia
Description
Looks at health determinants such as chronic illness and risky behaviors that effect well-being and social determinants that contribute to disadvantages in areas of education, income and employment.
Profile of Metis Health Status and Healthcare Utilization in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study
E-Books
Author/Creator
Patricia Marten
Judith Bartlett
Elaine Burland
Heather Prior
Charles Burchill ... [et al.]
Promising Directions for Caries Prevention With American Indian and Alaska Native Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith E. N. Albino
Valerie A. Orlando
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 216-222
Description
"This report will review caries trends among American Indian children and describes promising approaches that take into account culturally defined responses of AI/AN tribes and communities".
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Timiskaming First Nation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Production
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Jason Lawrence
Description
Focuses on the community's efforts to deal with Hepatitis C through education, outreach, and healing.
Duration: 27:33.
Promoting the Wellbeing of Indigenous People in Mental Health and Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Innocent F. Okozi
Andrea Sainab Nael
Maria Cristina Cruza-Guet
Communique, August 2010, pp. vii-xii
Description
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
Proposed Model of Care for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm Australian Capital Territory
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Winnunga Nimmityjah?]
Description
Program based on the 'Living Web Model of Care'.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Psychiatric Research in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986: A Systematic Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jouko Miettunen
Marianne Haapea
Lassi Björnholm
Sanna Huhtaniska
Teija Juol ...[et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Systematic literature search of PubMed and Scopus reveals 94 articles on psychiatric research conducted on the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986. Research includes information on early predictors of several psychiatric diagnoses, and novel findings related to brain imaging and cognition.
Psychological Distress Among Plains Indian Mothers With Children Referred To Screening For Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tassy Parker
Marcello A. Maviglia
Phyllis T. Lewis
J. Phillip Gossage
Philip A. May
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, vol. 5, no. 22, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Attempts to fill knowledge gap regarding occurrence, characteristics and relationship to drinking problems. Recommends community support and education as part of a prevention strategy.
Psychotherapy and Traditional Healing for American Indians: Exploring the the Prospects for Therapeutic Integration
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph P. Gone
The Counseling Psychologist, vol. 38, no. 2, 2010, pp. 166-235
Description
Compares Gros Ventre healing tradition and Eduardo Duran's culture-specific psychotherapy for American Indians.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Putting the ‘Last-Mile’ First: Re-framing Broadband Development in First Nations and Inuit Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Susan O’Donnell
Richard Smith
Jason Woodman Simmonds
Brian Walmark
Description
Looks at how First Nations and Inuit communities are using broadband networks and information and communication technologies; and discusses the broadband projects and federal broadband Initiatives in First Nations and Inuit communities.
The Qikiqtani Truth Commission: Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Sources relevant to the Commission's research.
QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
Qualitative Identification and Characterization of Self-reported Symptoms Arising in Humans during Experimental Exposure to Cold Air
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rita Sjöström
Lars Söderström
Carolina Klockmo
Alexander Patrician
Thomas Sandström ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study aims to describe and categorize symptoms experienced by people exposed to cold air. 50 distinct symptoms were reported by 34 participants, symptoms were grouped into ten sub-categories and two major categories; airway versus whole body symptoms.
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Quantification of Interplaying Relationships between Wellbeing Priorities of Aboriginal Peoples in Remote Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Schultz
Stephen J. Quinn
Tammy Abbott
Sheree Cairney
Jessica Yamaguchi
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Study examines the priorities that Indigenous people living in remote communities in Australia have for defining their own well-being and how they rank those priorities in their own understandings of health.
Quebec First Nations' Health and Social Services Governance Process: Effective Governance for the Wellness of First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Georges A. Legault
Quest for Cultural Safety: A Grounded Theory Study of Cultural Spaces Between Aboriginal Patients and Hospital Nurses
Theses
Author/Creator
Caroline Helen Foster-Boucher
Description
Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Alberta, 2010.
Racial Disparities in Health Status: A Comparison of the Morbidity Among American Indian and U.S. Adults With Diabetes
Alternate Title
Racial Disparities in Health Status: A Comparison of the Morbidity Among American Indian and United States Adults With Diabetes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan O'Connell
Rong Yi
Charlton Wilson
Spero M. Manson
Kelly J. Acton
Diabetes Care, vol. 33, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 1463-1470
Description
Discussion of the research conducted to compare the morbidity rate of diabetic American Indians and Alaska Natives with the United States population in general.
Racism, Discrimination and Health Services to Aboriginal People in South West Queensland
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Raelene Ward
Don Gorman
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, September 2010, pp. 3-5
Description
Study of 27 participants shows racism continues to have an impact on their social and emotional wellbeing.
Racism in the Electronic Age: Role of Online Forums in Expressing Racial Attitudes About American Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse A. Steinfeldt
Brad D. Foltz
Jennifer K. Kaladow
Tracy N. Carlson
Louis A. Pagano ... [et al.]
Culture, Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 16, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 362-371
Description
Examines online newspaper forums showing how misinformation is perpetuating stereotypes and racist attitudes towards American Aboriginal people.
A Rare Case of Warrdenburg Syndrome with Unilateral Hearing Loss Caused by Nonsense Variant c.772C>T (p.Arg259*) in the MITF Gene in Yakut Patient from the Eastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russia)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nikolay A. Barashkov
Georgii P. Romanov
Uigulaana P. Borisova
Aisen V. Solovyev
Vera G. Pshennikova ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study confirm the association of pathogenic variants in the MITF gene with WS type 2 and expanded data on the variability of audiological features of the WS.
The Rationale for Developing a Programme of Services by and for Indigenous Men in a First Nations Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie George
Melody Morton Ninomiya
Kathryn Graham
Sharon Bernards Samantha Wells
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 158-167
Description
Article summarizes the results of the mixed-methods research conducted in Kettle & Stoney Plain First Nation that focused on the mental health needs of Indigenous Men. Research examines the factors that contribute to mental health issues, the experience of men seeking supports and services, and identifies ways to address mental health in this community.
Reaching Agreement for an Aboriginal E-health Research Agenda: The Aboriginal Telehealth Knowledge Circle Consensus Method
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.A. Maar
A. Seymour
B. Sanderson
L. Boesch
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 10, no. 1, January-March 2010, pp. 1-13
Description
Discusses the development of eHealth research agenda initiatives including the knowledge gaps which impede adoption in rural Aboriginal communities in Canada.
Reclaiming Our Voices: Two Spirit Health & Human Service Needs in New York State
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
M. Somjen Fraser
Harlan Pruden
Description
Findings from focus groups showed experiences of homophobic oppression, racism, stigma, and inadequate access to health care.
Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of the Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1b
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming the Wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the Historical Perception and Construction of Indigenous Knowledges in Australian Cinema
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brooke Collins-Gearing
M/C Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Examines reactions to the 2009 film by Warwick Thornton which is about bravery, hopelessness, optimism, and the struggles of two Indigenous youth, and the dialogues it has created.
Reclaiming Tradition Around The Kitchen Table: a Model for HIV, Hepatitis and Sexual Health Education
Alternate Title
Around The Kitchen Table: a Model for HIV, Hepatitis and Sexual Health Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chee Mamuk Aboriginal Program
Description
Outlines the successes and challenges Chee Mamuk had in the creation of a culturally appropriate traditional model and provides recommendations for future implementations.
Recommendations for Clinical Care Guidelines on the Management of Otitis Media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Darwin Otitis Guidelines Group
Peter Morris
Amanda Leach
Pranalia Shah
Sandi Nelson ... [et al.]
Recommendations re Inquest Report for Brian Lloyd Sinclair
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Marc Cormier]
Description
Sinclair was a 45-year-old Aboriginal man who died after sitting for 34 hours waiting for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre's emergency department.
Reconciling Indigenous Need With the Urban Welfare State? Evidence of Culturally-appropriate Services and Spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Geoffrey DeVerteuil
Kathi Wilson
Geoforum, vol. 41, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 498-507
Description
Discussion on the effectiveness of a non-Aboriginal recovery system and the provision of culturally appropriate
services and programs to meet the needs of Aboriginal people.
Recruiting and Retention Concerns Health Care Team
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hansford
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 22
Description
Explores problems some Aboriginal communities have recruiting and retaining health care professionals.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Reducing Alcohol and Other Drug Related Harm
Alternate Title
Resource Sheet (Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) ; no. 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dennis Gray
Edward Wilkes
Reducing Opioid Overdose Deaths in Minnesota: Insights from One Tribal Nation
Alternate Title
National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Minnesota HotSpot Study
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenna Greenfield
Erin Russell
Hannah Youngdeer
Melissa Walls
Clinton Alexander
Description
Study conducted in collaboration with the Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Earth Nation) performed five fatality reviews and held four focus group discussions to identify risk and protective factors.
Regional Consultation Process on the Reform of the Income Assistance: Final Report: Quebec Region
Alternate Title
Placing Client Wellness at the Heart of Services
E-Books
Author/Creator
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC)
Regional Profiles of First Nations Communities: According to Current Provincial Health Authority Regions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Health Council
Description
Provides a picture of health care administration governance including Bands, Tribal Councils, health transfer programs and health plans.
Relations Between English Settlers and Indians in 17th Century New England
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Tetek
Description
Offers insight into a period of American history which shaped future relations.
Diploma Thesis towards undergraduate degree--Masaryk University Brno, 2010.
The Relationship Between Fructose Consumption and Risk of Obesity in Two Aboriginal Populations
Theses
Author/Creator
Zohreh Emad
Description
Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Montreal, 2010.
The Relationship Between Socio-economic and Geographic Factors and Asthma Among Canada's Aboriginal Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric J. Crighton
Kathi Wilson
Sacha Senécal
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 2, 2010, pp. 138-150
Description
Studies the health issue of asthma and the increase in prevalence among Aboriginal populations.
Relationships of Ethnicity, Physical Activity and Diet With Adiposity Development in Aboriginal Youth
Theses
Author/Creator
Kristal Dawn Anderson
Description
Kinesiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.
Relocating From the Mushkegowuk Territory for Hemodialysis: The Cree Illness Experience and Perceived Quality of Life
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carrie D. Kolewaski
Margo L. Paterson
Karen E. Yeates
Cheryl E. King-Van Vlack
Pimatiwiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 103-150
Description
Study found that in addition to hemodialysis being life-altering, patients also experienced negative clinical interactions from healthcare providers due to misperceptions about beliefs and behaviours.
Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the United States
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Deer
William Mitchell Law Review, vol. 36, no. 2, Indian Law, 2010, pp. 621-682
Description
Looks at issues of enslavement, exploitation and exportation of Native American women over the generations, from pre-colonial to contemporary times.