Authors connect the health and well-being of Indigenous males with the practice of cultural identities, obligations, and kinship systems; make policy recommendations that aim to improve the cultural engagement and consequently the well-being of Indigenous men.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 9, no. 1, November 2012, pp. 15-22
Description
Advocates for a cultural safety approach as opposed to cultural sensitivity model for treating Aboriginal patients.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 15.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 27 , no. 2, Fall, 2012, pp. 99-127
Description
Studies the strategies and programs for suicide prevention in various American Indian/Alaska Native communities and offers policy-change recommendations based on each communities needs.
Culture and Wellness in the Workplace: A Guidebook
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Imagination FX
Nene Kraneveldt Consulting
Description
Developed to help employees, teams, volunteers, board members, and social service organizations as a whole. Information is divided into three sections: take care of yourself, take care of each other, and take care of this place.
Topics include context, healing journey and resiliency theory, culturally appropriate evidence-informed practices and examples of programs in Canada and the United States.
[Aboriginal Culture as Intervention: Sharing How Aboriginal Culture is Part of the Healing Journey from Addictions]
[Honoring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
[Honouring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cynthia Shorting
Russell Bone
Description
Two individuals describe their experiences with addiction at a STREAM (Saskatchewan Team for Research and Evaluation of Addictions Treatment and Mental Health Services) meeting. Followed by a question and answer period.
Duration: 59:25.
Presented as part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, May/June 1991, pp. 16-20
Description
Resource guide to enable health workers to recognize indicators reflecting sexual assault and report suspicions to a qualified sexual assault councelor.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18383
Description
Article examines 72 peer-reviewed articles resulting in several thematic areas: infectious disease, environmental exposure, nutrition, birth outcomes, tobacco, chronic disease, health care policy, human resources, interventions, social determinants, mental health, genetics, injury and dental health.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 2, 2017, pp. 20-12
Description
Study looks at how to create culturally safe research methods for improving health equity; stresses that trust is the overarching theme fundamental to cultural safety, and that this trust is built by accommodating and engaging cultural and community practices and knowledges.
An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Alycia Fridkin
Description
Argues that inclusion of Indigenous peoples in policy decision-making is essential for developing policies that address health inequalities.
Paper from An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework edited by Olena Hankivsky.
Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 45, November 13, 2017, pp. e1377-e1378
Description
Discusses health care disparities in remote communities and argues that a more comprehensive concept of primary care is needed to deal with social determinants of health.
Looks at population, tribal economies, tribal lands, public safety and security, energy on tribal lands, housing and infrastructure, forestry, health disparities, and education.
To see all annual reports between 1945-1992, search 'IHS Annual Report'.
This reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and has not been produced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada. See full reproduction credits
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-4
Description
Book review of: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay and Charlotte Reading.
Statistics on incidence, prevalence, access to and process of care, and complications and other conditions associated with the disease.
Data sources: Métis Nation of Ontario's Citizenship Registry, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Discharge Abstract Database, National Ambulatory Care Reporting System, and Ontario Drug Benefit Program.
Maps include statistics on incidence, number newly diagnosed per 100 individuals, and skin and soft tissue complications in four regions: Moose Factory, Southern Ontario, Sioux Lookout, and Thunder Bay as well as for the province as a whole.