Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 16, no. 12, 2014, p. e280
Description
Looked at peer-reviewed evidence of effectiveness with respect to health promotion in the areas of smoking cessation, sexual health, and otitis media globally, well as uses of the technology specific to Australia. The seventeen intervention studies and seven systematic reviews which met inclusion criteria showed limited evidence of benefit from the interventions.
Societies, vol. 4, no. 3, September 2014, pp. [463]-476
Description
Uses data from the Aboriginal Children's Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to analyze the role of networks, institutional resources, and diet modification in compensating for parent-reported child hunger.
Solar Energy Development Programmatic EIS: Information Centre
Web Sites » Governmental
Description
Website focuses on identifying the locations most suitable for utility-scale solar energy development, and evaluating potential environmental, social, and economic effects.
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 101-118
Description
Examines a form of creative resistance and discusses how a music video is used to develop a Native feminist aesthetic that is tied to land sovereignty, representation and community power.
Project consisted of analysis of print media coverage and interviews. Five topics came to the forefront: leadership, mothering, families and transitioning out of sex work, ethical and effective service, and the media.
Study looks at the meaning and significance of musical recordings that reflect Aboriginal identity and presents three case studies of Aboriginal rock groups.
Albert Journal of Educational Research, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 72-81
Description
Presents themes of review: lack of willingness by the federal government to honor constitutional obligations; focus of providing provincial level of special education services; limited funding; lack of respect for First Nations knowledge.
Looks at the success, implementation and relevance of an initiative developed in response to an increasing rate of suicide among First Nations and Inuit youth.
Focuses on violence experienced by women and girls, over-representation of First Nations children in the child welfare system, gap in educational attainment, over-representation of Aboriginal women in the federal penitentiary system, and gender-based discrimination in legislation.
Project purpose was to increase understanding of the current accessibility and availability of speech-language pathology and audiology services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis heritage in Canada.
Author discusses traditional knowledge systems of the Métis in Alberta and how the arrival of capitalism impacted the relationship to land. Focuses on writings of Elmer Ghostkeeper, Victoria Belcourt Callihoo and Herb Belcourt.
Selections from a the report, which revealed a dramatic increase of Aboriginal Peoples in the federal penitentiary system.
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