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Agreement between Self-reported and Central Cancer Registry-recorded Prevalence of Cancer in the Alaska EARTH Study
American Indian and Alaska Native Knowledge and Public Health for the Primary Prevention of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons
Building on Strengths: Collaborative Intergenerational Health Research with Urban First Nations and Métis Women and Girls
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.
“Catching a Child”: Giving Birth Under Nomadic Conditions. The Methods of Pre- and Postnatal Care of the Nenets and Mothers and Babies
Collaborative and Systems Approach to Transforming Primary Health Care in Manitoba First Nations Communities
Looks at the use of a more borderless health care system for Indigenous communities to meet their specific needs.
The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life: Special Issue Introduction
Colonial Legacies and Collaborative Action: Improving Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care in Canada
Colonial Trauma: Complex, Continuous, Collective, Cumulative and Compounding Effects on the Health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond
Combining First Nations Research Methods with a World Health Organization Guide to Understand Low Childhood Immunisation Coverage in Children in Tamworth, Australia
Looks at the cause of and ways to address the low immunization rates in Indigenous communities in Australia.
Community-Engaged and Culturally Relevant Research to Develop Behavioral Health Interventions with American Indians and Alaska Natives
Community Setting as a Determinant of Health for Indigenous Peoples Living in the Prairie Provinces of Canada: High Rates and Advanced Presentations of Tuberculosis
Community-Specific Risk and Protective Factors for Risky Alcohol Consumption in American Indian Women of Reproductive Potential: Informing Interventions
Cultural Safety Training for Health Professionals Working with Indigenous Populations in Montreal, Quebec
The Culture is Prevention Project: Adapting the Cultural Connectedness Scale for Multi-Tribal Communities
Decolonizing Diabetes
Researchers use a decolonizing approach in this study; interviewed 22 people from a First Nations community in Northern Ontario to explore the lived experience and perceptions about developing the disease. Findings indicate a need for culturally appropriate care.
Decolonizing Health in Canada: A Manitoba First Nation Perspective
Reports results of 183 interviews and focus groups held between 2015 and 2015 in eight communities with a variety of health delivery systems, geographies, accessibilities and language groups. Four themes emerged: control of healthcare, traditional medicine and healing practices, community participation, and dealing with the impacts of colonization.
A Dene First Nation’s Community Readiness Assessment to Take Action against HIV/AIDS: A Pilot Project
Developing an Indigenous Measure of Overall Health and Well-being: The Wicozani Instrument
Developing the Tribal Resource Guide and the Poverty and Culture Training: The We RISE (Raising Income, Supporting Education) Study
Christine W. Hockett
Diet Quality in Canada: Policy Solutions for Equity
Authors note that Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy does not address social determinants of health (childhood environments, gender, Indigenous status, income, education and occupation) as root causes of poor diet quality; they suggest that a reduction of diet inequities will require policy change.
Discrepancies in Data Reporting of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases across the Nordic Countries – A Call for Action in the Era of Climate Change
Discrimination Against First Nations Children with Special Healthcare Needs in Manitoba: The Case of Pinaymootang First Nation
Disparities in Social Determinants of Health Outcomes and Behaviours between Older Adults in Alaska and the Contiguous US: Evidence from a National Survey
Educating Medical Students’ “Hearts and Minds”: A Humanities-Informed Cultural Immersion Program in Indigenous Experiential Community Learning
Examines the First Nations Community Education Program as a collaborative effort to address Indigenous health inequalities in Canada.
Enhancing Access to Care in Northern Rural Communities via Telehealth
Evaluation of a Native Youth Leadership Program Grounded in Cherokee Culture: The “Remember the Removal” Program
Evaluation of a Pilot Paediatric Concussion Telemedicine Programme for Northern Communities in Manitoba
Evaluation of the Indigenous Relationship and Cultural Safety Courses among a sample of Indigenous Services Canada nurses
Exploring the Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth in Winneway, Québec
Exploring Why and How Encounters with the Norwegian Health-care System can be Considered Culturally Unsafe by North Sami-Speaking Patients and Relatives: A Qualitative Study Based on 11 Interviews
Failure of Mainstream Well-being Measures to Appropriately Reflect the Well-being of Indigenous and Local Communities and its Implications for Welfare Policies
Forced or Coerced Sterilization in Canada: An Overview of Recommendations for Moving Forward
Looks at the underlining causes of and recommendations to address the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.
Genomic Research Through an Indigenous Lens: Understanding the Expectations
Gum yan asing Kaangas giidaay han hll guudang gas ga. I Will Never Again Feel That I Am Less Than: Indigenous Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Ending Racism in Health Care
Using personal experiences to address colonialism and the systematic racism within the Canadian health care system.
Health Literacy in Action: Kaupapa Māori Evaluation of a Cardiovascular Disease Medications Health Literacy Intervention
How a Lifecourse Approach Can Promoted Long-term Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Māori
“I feel safe just coming here because there are other Native brothers and sisters”: Findings from a Community-based Evaluation of the Niiwin Wendaanimak Four Winds Wellness Program
Study evaluates community services available to homeless and at risk Indigenous people in Toronto. Found that the collaborative services model currently in place used inclusive and harm reduction models to create a non-judgmental space; identified program strengths, challenges, and gaps and makes policy recommendations.
I’taamohkanoohsin (everyone comes together): (Re)connecting Indigenous people experiencing homelessness and substance misuse to Blackfoot ways of knowing
“I would prefer to have my healthcare provided over a cup of tea any day”: Recommendations by Urban Métis Women to Improve Access to Health and Social Services in Toronto for the Métis Community
Identifying Barriers to Healthcare Delivery and Access in the Circumpolar North: Important Insights for Health Professionals
Improving Access to Indigenous Medicine for Patients in Hospital-based Settings: A Challenge for Health Systems in Northern Canada
Improving Dementia Care for Gitxsan First Nations People
Identifies ways of incorporating Gitxsan knowledge of dementia to help nurses incorporate more culturally safe practices to deal with Indigenous elderly patients in British Columbia.
Indigenous Factors Relevant for Safe Birth in Cultural Safety among Nancue ñomndaa Communities in Guerrero, Mexico. Protocol of a Study Based on Conversations
Indigenous Health: Applying Truth and Reconciliation in Alberta Health Services
Article examines how Alberta Health Services (AHS) can work to address the health disparities faced by Indigenous peoples in the province. Focuses on collaborative community engagement, relationship building and Indigenous self-determination.