American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, 2014, pp. S481-S489
Description
Looks at risk behaviors such as tobacco use, diet and physical inactivity by surveying communities and using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System conducted by state health departments and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 274-279
Description
Examines health care utilization patterns and finds Native Hawaiian women with the highest rates of depression as well as sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 09]
[The Health of Men]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mose Herne
Description
Webcast of a presentation from Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium discussing the health of Native American and Alaska Native men.
Duration: 37:06.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 67-84
Description
Contends that conditions were unsanitary and health professionals discourage local consultations with shamans for traditional treatments, both examples of broader reservation health trends of the times.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 6, November/December 2001, pp. 7-11
Description
Commentary states that the Northern Territory is only Australian jurisdiction to require health workers to be registered. Health workers that are registered have to meet standards of competency which improves patient care.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, July/August 2001, pp. 26-28
Description
Describes program which had 260 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait participants. Over 60% of female patients and 80% of male patients lost weight.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 206-217
Description
Describes the Hearing and Otitis Program (HOP) and model of service delivery, the role of the different contributors to the program, and proposed avenues to explore in order to maintain and enhance the community based aspects of the program.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 380-387
Description
"... explores the issues surrounding 'awa use, highlights existing literature, places the discussion in its proper indigenous context, and sheds light on the tensions fueled by culturally inappropriate practice".
Through personal testimonies charges that children were: deliberately exposed to disease, forced to undergo sterilization, beaten, sometimes to death and that these actions were taken with the goal of eventual elimination of the Aboriginal population.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 164, no. 7, April 3, 2001, pp. 1026-1027
Description
Reviews "Hygieia: Literature and Medicine" a special issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (vol. 33, no. 4), which views the "study of medicine as reflected in literature."
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 106, April 2014, p. 128–136
Description
Discusses the theory of historical trauma and the connection to contemporary health disparities. Also examines a narrative model to address problems of existing historical theories.
Joe Gone - Historical Trauma, Therapy Culture, and (NAMHR 2014)
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Joseph P. Gone
Description
Annual meeting of Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research (NAMHR) held in Montreal, Quebec, June 13, 2014. Joe Gone speaks about post colonial stress and trauma and is therapy culture fixing contemporary Indigenous societies.
Duration: 25:09.
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2001. Presents disease history from pre-contact through trade period, combining historical, archaeological and physical anthropological research.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, Women and HIV/AIDS, Summer/Fall, 2001, pp. 124-126
Description
Brenda Loyie, a Cree Peer Counsellour/ Advocate with AIDS Prince George is one of three Aboriginal women who tell their story in the video Women, HIV and Addictions: Before, During and After.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 20-25
Description
Study results found that Aboriginal people in Australia were more likely to be admitted to the hospital for primary and preventable conditions and stay longer than non-Aboriginal populations.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 105, March 2014, p. 59–66
Description
Examines the experiences of drug user patients in hospital settings and the social, structural, and environmental factors that contribute to self discharge.
Discussion centers on Inquiry's focus areas: patterns of supply and demand, social and economic determinants of use, trends and prevalence of harms, implications of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and best practice treatments, strategies and identification
Recommendations for improving food security through increasing hunting capacity, food processing and distribution capabilities and awareness about traditional foods.
Body Image, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 318-327
Description
Women identified the following themes: accepting everything about your body; who you are and how you show it; connection to culture; being healthy; and being thankful to be Indigenous.