Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, January/February 1996, pp. 9-10
Description
Discusses the kinds of family counseling services provided: viewing a body and identification, postmortems, inquests and resulting information, guidance through the inquest, information about rights, and short, medium and long-term counseling.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 13, no. 2, Fall, 1996, pp. 1999-224
Description
Focuses on the efforts of the Chief Medical Officer of the Departments of the Interior and Indian Affairs on behalf of the Aboriginal population within the broader context of the public health movement.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care , vol. 32, no. 4, October-December 1996, pp. 23-[30?]
Description
Discusses aspects of undergraduate psychiatric nursing practicums done in correctional facilities and implications of the co-existence of concepts of "custody and caring" in such institutions.
Justice as Healing, vol. 1, no. 4, Winter, 1996, p. [?]
Description
Perspective on maintaining or regaining balance discussed in relation to individual as well the relationship between tradition and the administration of justice in Canada.
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, vol. 24, no. 3, June 1996, pp. 217-221
Description
Compares 1988 and 1980 data gathered by the Medical Services Branch, from the Pacific Region of Health Canada and the recent B.C. Children's Health Survey.
Highlights launch of The Program Transfer and Policy Development Directorate.
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, December 1988, pp. 43-45
Description
Employee at the Lismore Base Hospital in Northern New South Wales discusses his role within the Richmond Clinic assisting Aboriginal clients and being their advocate.
Journal of School Health, vol. 66, no. 9, November 1996, pp. 322-327
Description
Discusses culturally sensitive approach to curricula development based on three critical processes: selection of integrative theory, use of ethnographic methodology and use of process and outcome evaluations.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 87, no. 5, September/October 1996, pp. 325-328
Description
Investigates the prevalence of diabetes, finding adult females with Saulteaux or Sioux ancestry and living on southern reserves are more likely to run the risk of developing diabetes.
Discusses factors that played into government policy of removal and relocation of patients to southern hospitals: logistics of program delivery to remote communities, division of responsibility between Arctic Services Division and the Department of Health and Welfare, private sector involvement in northern-policy making, and politicians lack of commitment to the North.
Diabetes Care, vol. 19, no. 8, August 1996, pp. 822-826
Description
Findings indicate subjects of maternal antecedents with diabetes have known risk factors for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM or adult onset diabetes). The study doesn't identify whether there is a genetic or maternal environmental reason for this association.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1988, [1989], pp. 71-77
Description
Summary of an ecological approach, that incorporates environmental, cultural & historical data with biological data, to help understand the causes of acute ear infections.
American Ethnologist, vol. 15, no. 1, February 1988, pp. 98-119
Description
Study conducted in Ojibway community in Manitoba used two interview formats to determine level of and variation in understanding of the disease, then analyzed responses to develop a cultural model.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 88, no. 5, May 1988, pp. 781-786
Description
Argues that there is an apparent high prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome in Alaska, cautions that use of a single data-source can lead to underestimates.