Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 6, November/December 1995, p. 18
Description
Provides information about projects dealing with alcohol and drug abuse in communities, methods being used to minimize alcohol and drug problems, and those available free of charge.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 233-254
Description
Discusses a new era in health care in the Moose Factory Zone in Ontario since 1996, including the transfer of the regional hospital to First Nation control and a say in the spending of health care monies.
Health Promotion International, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010, pp. 166-173
Description
Looks at a case study of a health promotion project which, using the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, aims to provide culturally appropriate health promotion.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 42, no. 1, 2010, pp. 56-73
Description
Using feedback from registered nurses working in the Canadian north to Discuss key concepts in dementia care and how this knowledge can be used to improve the care provided.
Ethnicity and Disease, vol. 20, no. 4, 2010, pp. 444-450
Description
Study found that simple interventions that target availability of sweetened beverages in American Indian communities proved feasible and may reduce tooth decay.
[Detecting Developmental Delays in Young Children of a North American Indian Community]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carmen Dionne
Suzie McKinnon
Jane Squires
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 117-123
Description
Study used a sample of 12 teachers involved with 213 Mohawk children between the ages of 29-60 months who attended the Step by Step Child and Family Center of Kahnawake, Quebec. Goal was to assess the Ages and Stages questionnaire as a culturally appropriate tool to recognize young children at risk for social or emotional difficulties.
Article in French.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 101, no. 1, January/February 2010, pp. 101-105
Description
Discusses the diagnosis of primary invasive breast cancer between First Nations and non-First Nations women, and the need for screening programs aimed at detecting breast cancers earlier.
Identifies challenges and opportunities in six areas: accountability reporting burden; access to services; fragmented health record; service referrals; connectivity and infrastructure; and interoperability.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2010, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses a program that includes the use of cultural beliefs, practices and customs for the health care needs of cancer patients in Indigenous communities.
International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 282-295
Description
Argues that current interventions into child welfare are a continuation of past patriarchal attitudes and actions which in turn have produced unhealthy families and communities.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 3, 2010, pp. 236-252
Description
Examines trends in diabetes, mostly by using population-based data, but also including discussions on risk factors, awareness, funding and case findings.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 78-85
Description
Discusses the similarities and differences between the use of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," and an Aboriginal naming ceremony used by the Coast-Salish people in British Columbia.
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 23, no. Supplement 1, 2010, pp. 27-34
Description
Study found inadequate intakes of several essential nutrients, as well as reliance on non-traditional food and concluded that nutrition intervention was needed prevent diet-related chronic disease.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 95, no. 6, June 1995, pp. 676-683
Description
Investigation revealed increased carbohydrate and fat intake resulted in higher rates of non-insulin-dependent diabetes, these individuals also had higher obesity rates.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 181-203
Description
Examines the writings of Brigham Young to reconstruct some of the epidemiological events that affected Indigenous people in what is now Utah while was being colonized.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 39-45
Description
Presents a study to determine if there is a difference in birth outcomes among First Nations women living
on-reserve versus off-reserve in Manitoba.