Information from the BC Ministry of Health Health System Matrix database. Includes hospital, physician, chronic conditions, home and residential care service data.
Examines health risks, health status and health services use utilizing comprehensive population-level health data. Primary source is the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.
Discusses the linkage between the frontier culture and alcohol abuse, and the higher rates of consumption among Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in Alaska and Northern Canada.
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care , vol. 21, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 449-454
Description
Study based on interviews with eight participants from across forty-three communities and focused on five key prevention issues: definition, types of activities, prevention levels, target groups, and facilitation and barriers.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 257-264
Description
Looks at the success of this program which meets the spiritual, medical and psychosocial needs of Native Americans based on community involvement and cultural relevance.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, [Indigenous Health Special Issue], April 2010, pp. 362-373
Description
Contends that a Community Based/Tribally Based Participatory approach (CBPR/TPR) was the best practice approach and was congruent with the community's Tribal culture.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxiii-xxvii
Description
Presents the People Awakening Project as a good example of a strength-based and culturally-appropriate approach.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxiii.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 9-22
Description
Study on prenatal alcohol abuse in the lives of young Aboriginal women and the connections between that abuse and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, sexual abuse, extreme violence, and gangs.
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2010.
Focuses on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 273-280
Description
Outlines the overlap between sexual, physical and substance abuse and increased HIV risk behaviours amid urban Native women in the San Francisco Bay area.
Reports that virtually no progress had been made in programs and services regarding the Labrador Innu Comprehensive Healing Strategy in the new community of Natuashish.
Duration: 18:36.