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American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health
A Brief History of Federal Inuit Policy Development: Lessons in Consultation and Cultural Competence
The City as a "Space of Opportunity": Urban Indigenous Experiences and Community Safety Partnerships
Community Influences on the Mental Health of First Nations Children in Canada
Uses findings from the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey and census data to investigate the effect of socio-economic characteristics and features of neighbourhood organization. Chapter from Exploring the Urban Landscape edited by Jerry P. White and Jodi Bruhn. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.
Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People: An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1981-2001
Examines data from census years 1981 to 2001 to identify whether any progress had been made in narrowing disparities in education, life expectancy, and income.
Chapter three from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which is vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Social Capital in First Nations Communities: Concept and Measurement
Attempts to identify and measure social capital and its relationship to health determination. Chapter six from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Spirituality and Addiction: The Role of Twelve-Step Programs in Eden Robinson's Blood Sports
Transferring Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practices? On Knowing about Indigenous Knowledge and Aboriginal Suicide
Emphasizes two points: differential rates between communities and what should be done to address problem. Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.