Implications of Gender and Household Roles in Indigenous Maya Communities in Guatemala for Child Nutrition Interventions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather Wehr
Anita Chary
Meghan Farley Webb
Peter Rohloff
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, Sharing Knowledge Across Nations, 2014, pp. 99-112
Description
Study uses focus group data from two communities to explore gender and intra-household power dynamics as they relate to child-rearing practices and nutritional decision-making.
Improved Aboriginal Child Health Data Collection Urged
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Silversides
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 182, no. 1, January 12, 2010, p. E47
Description
Discussion on the initiatives and data needed to evaluate policies aimed at improving the health status of Indigenous children.
Improving Accessibility of the Legal System for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victims/Survivors of Family Violence and Sexual Assault
Alternate Title
Policy Paper Series (Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria)
Description
Looks at: family law, cultural awareness and services, child protection and the legal system, family violence law, victim assistance, impact of being a witness, police response and restorative justice.
Improving the Reach of Early Childhood Education for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
In Conversation With Dr. Esther Tailfeathers
Alternate Title
1 in 3: Cancer View Digest
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Esther Tailfeathers
Description
Looks at healthcare, including cancer screening, western medicine, traditional medicine, and palliative care in a remote community.
Duration: 11:24.
In Support of Call for Improvement in Aboriginal Child Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Moore-Orr
Victor C. Goldbloom
Janet Smylie
Mary Simon
Betty Ann Lavallée
Arne Ohlsson
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 101, no. 5, September/October 2010, p. 426
Description
Looks at a letter to the editor regarding postneonatal mortality rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians and a response to the letter.
Incidence, Persistence, and Determinants of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in a Population of Inuit Women in Nunavik, Quebec
Theses
Author/Creator
Rachel Bennett
Description
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2010.
Inclusiveness and Health Economics: Reflections on the Work of Gavin Mooney (1943–2012)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cam Donaldson
Stephen Birch
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 108, Mini Special Issue to celebrate the work of Gavin Mooney , May 2014, p. 246–247
Description
Discusses an inclusive approach to equity in health and health care.
Inclusiveness in the Health Economic Evaluation Space
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mandy Ryan
Karen Gerard
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 108, Mini Special Issue to celebrate the work of Gavin Mooney , May 2014, p. 248–251
Description
Discusses Gavin Mooney's contributions to the growth of evaluative space in health economics including ideas of valuing not just health outcomes and doctor/economist's values, but patient values as well.
Inclusiveness in the Value Base for Health Care Resource Allocation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Virginia L. Wiseman
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 108, Mini Special Issue to celebrate the work of Gavin Mooney , May 2014, p. 252–256
Description
Discusses an alternative health economics paradigm in which a community-based approach is used to allocating health care resources.
Incorporating Intersectionality Theory into Population Health Research Methodology: Challenges and the Potential to Advance Health Equity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Greta R. Bauer
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 110, June 2014, p. 10–17
Description
Discusses a quantitative research methodology that challenges incorporation of intersectional theory into health population research and promotes the creation of evidence that is useful in population-level interventions.
Increasing Employment Rates for Indigenous People with a Disability
Alternate Title
Resource Sheet (Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) ; no. 29
E-Books
Author/Creator
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse
Increasing Nunavut Housing Ventilation Rates with HRVs
Alternate Title
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Technical Series ; 10-102
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Project looked for correlations between poor indoor air quality and frequency of respiratory infections in children. This phase looked at whether installation of heat recovery ventilators, by providing more fresh air, would result in better health.
The Indian Residential School System of Canada: The Search for Truth, the Need for Reconciliation
Alternate Title
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement's Common Experience Payment and Healing: A Qualitative Study Exploring Impacts on Recipients
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gwen Reimer
Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series
Indigenous Birth Outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States - an Overview
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Smylie
Sue Crengle
Jane Freemantle
Maile Taualii
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 7-17
Description
Reviews Indigenous infant mortality, stillbirth, birth weight, and preterm birth outcomes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.
Indigenous Child Safety
E-Books
Author/Creator
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous Community Based Participatory Research and Health Impact Assessment: A Canadian Example
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roy E. Kwiatkowski
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 31, no. 4, July 2010, pp. 445-450
Description
Examines the reasons why Indigenous community engagement is important due to climate change and discusses barriers to western-based health impact assessment and Indigenous traditional knowledge integration.
Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Evaluating Impact on Community Health and Wellbeing
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Phipps
Lisa Slater
Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Alternate Title
Discussion Paper (Food Secure Canada) ; 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Louise Lyman]
Description
Discusses such topics as food systems, pillars of food sovereignty, access to food, and protection of food sources and production.
Indigenous Health in Ontario: An Introductory Guide for Medical Students
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Justin Boyle
Patricia Hoyeck
Sanasi Jayawardena
Alexandra Kilian
Mirriam Mikhail … [et al.]
Description
Developed to provide a brief introduction to historical and contemporary circumstances which have produced negative health outcomes for Aboriginal individuals and communities, as well as an appreciation of their resilience and strength despite centuries of discrimination.
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve
E-Books
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Anne Olson
Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Synthesis, Translation and Exchange (KSTE)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carmen Ellison
Description
Discussion on sharing and exchanging knowledge and the integration of Aboriginal approaches to health within the current public health system.
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelton H. Davies
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-17
Description
Contends that climate change and green house gas emissions are negatively affecting the economies and health of third world developing countries.
The Indigenous Peoples of Alaska: Appreciating the Role of Elders in Shifting Toward A Strength-Based and Culturally-Appropriate Approach to Mental Health
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jordan Lewis
Tina Marie Woods
Ruth Zuniga
E. J. R. David
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.
Indigenous Perpetrators of Violence: Prevalence and Risk Factors for Offending
Alternate Title
AIC Reports. Research and Public Policy Series ; 105
Report (Australian Institute of Criminology)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joy Wundersitz
Report (Australian Institute of Criminology)
Indigenous Suicide and Colonization: The Legacy of Violence and the Necessity of Self-Determination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keri Lawson-Te Aho
James H. Liu
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, vol. 4, no. 1, Collective Memories of Colonial Violence, 2010, pp. 124-133
Description
Risk factors include loss of culture, acculturative stress and unstable family situations or drug use.
Indigenous Women, Work, and History, 1940-1980
Alternate Title
Critical Studies in Native History ; 16
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Critical Studies in Native History
The Indigenous World 2010
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Sara Olsvig
Johan Strömgren
Susanne Amalie Andersen
Olga Murashko
Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk
... et al.]
The Indigenous World 2014
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Frank Sejersen
Olga Murashko
Johannes Rohr
Stephen Hendrie
Jennifer Preston ... et al.]
Individual- and Community-Level Disparities in Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality Among First Nations, Inuit and Other Populations in Quebec
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fabienne Simonet
Spogmai Wassimi
Maureen Heaman
Janet Smylie
Patricia Martens
et al.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 18-24
Description
Discusses the need to improve socioeconomic conditions as well as perinatal and infant care for Aboriginal peoples in Quebec.
Infant Cereal Program in Nunavut: What Can We Do Better?
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
V. Avinashi
V. Petkova
G. Osborne
M. Charon
S. Zlotkin
Description
Looks at iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children 0 - 5 years of age and how to manage and prevent it.
The Infant Feeding Experiences of Mi'kmaw Women: A Feminist Phenomenological Inquiry
Theses
Author/Creator
Judith A. Cormier
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 2014.
Infanticide at Port Phillip: Protector William Thomas and the Witnessing of Things Unseen
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marguerita Stephens
Aboriginal History, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 109-130
Description
Contends that evidence of the practice is scant at best and is an attempt to assert dominance and superiority over a colonized people.
Inhalant Abuse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L. Baydala
Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 443-448
Description
Highlights new information and provides recommendations for treatment and prevention of volatile substance abuse.
Injury Prevention Indicators for Inuit Children and Youth
E-Books
Author/Creator
First Nations and Inuit Children and Youth Injury Indicators Working Group
Ian Pike
The Intergenerational Effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the Concept of Historical Trauma
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Bombay
Kimberly Matheson
Hymie Anisman
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 3, Historical Trauma, June 2014, pp. 320-338
Description
Reviews existing empirical research and concludes that present day disparities in well-being are cumulative and span across generations.
Intergenerational Patterns of Fertility among Registered Indian Teenage Girls in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marilyn Amorevieta-Gentil
David Daignault
Norbert Robitaille
Eric Guimond
Sacha Senecal
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 1-19
Description
Suggests that the daughters of teenage girls tend to have higher fertility rates than daughters whose mothers were older at birth.
Intergenerational Trauma and Aboriginal Women: Implications for Mental Health During Pregnancy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amrita Roy
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental, Spiritual and Cultural Health, 2014, pp. 7-21
Description
Looks at prenatal depression and other mental health issues that may cause serious maternal, fetal and child health consequences.
Intergenerational Trauma From a Mental Health Perspective
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Menzies
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 63-85
Description
Presents a study that looks at links between personal homelessness and intergenerational trauma through a series of interviews with Aboriginal men.
An Intersectionality Analysis of Gender, Indigeneity, and Food Insecurity among Ultrapoor Gara Women in Bangladesh
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jenny Munro
Barbara Parker
Lynn McIntyre
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, Sharing Knowledge Across Nations, 2014, pp. 68-82
Description
Looks at Indigenous women's experiences and challenges of food insecurity.
Introduction: Indigenous Knowledges: Resurgence, Implementation, and Collaboration in Social Work
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Anthony Hart
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Indigenous Knowledges: Resurgence, Implementation, and Collaboration in Social Work, December 2014, pp. 1-4
Description
Introduction to themed issue containing articles based on presentations given at the Second International Indigenous Voices in Social Work, July 8-11, 2013.
An Introduction to Oral Health Inequalities Among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gloria C. Mejia
Eleanor J. Parker
Lisa M. Jamieson
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 212-215
Description
Overview revealed that inequalities exist and are on the rise in child and adult populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
Inuit Cancer Control in Canada Baseline Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Description
Examines the high cancer rates in Inuit populations and highlights challenges to receiving care, from diagnosis through to survivorship or palliative care.
Inuit Family Understandings of Sexual Health and Relationships in Nunavut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwen K. Healey
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 105, no. 2, March/April 2014, pp. e133-137
Description
Study conclusions point to the need for public health strategies that encompass Inuit family values on sexual health.
Inuit Five-Year Strategic Plan For Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 2010- 2015
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Inuit Health: Selected Findings From the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan Wallace
Inuit Health Survey 2007-2008: Nunavut
Alternate Title
International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey: Health in Transition and Resiliency
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. M. Egeland
Description
Summarizes results for adults.
Inuit Parent Perspectives on Sexual Health Communication with Adolescent Children in Nunavut: "It's kinda hard for me to try to find the words"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwen Healey
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014, p. article no. 25070
Description
Comments on perceived barriers for communicating with youth and the support elders can provide to young people.