Hot Topics in Alaska Native Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alaska Native Epidemiology Center
Description
Looks at both health challenges and successes.
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.
Using interviews with first-language speaking Elders to improve the understanding of Indigenous worldviews on health and well-being in order to improve health programs within Indigenous communities.
Examines a doula training course that teaches palliative care specifically for Indigenous seniors.