Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kevin J. P. Craib
Patricia M. Spittal
Sheetal H. Patel
Wayne M. Christian
Akm Moniruzzaman
et al.
Open Medicine, vol. 3, no. 4
Description
Looks at data collected from a study on (HCV) infection among the Aboriginal population who use drugs and live in Prince George and Vancouver.
Prevalence and Sociodemographic Risk Factors Related to Household Food Security in Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Noreen D. Willows
Paul Veugelers
Kim Raine
Stefan Kuhle
Public Health Nutrition, vol. 12, no. 8, August 2009, pp. 1150-1156
Description
Uses data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2. Nutrition (CCHS 2.2) to compare characteristics of off-reserve Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal households.
Prevalence of Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Greenland 2008: The Impact of Electronic Database Implementation on the Quality of Diabetes Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Lynge Pedersen
International Journal Of Circumpolar Health, vol. 68, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 34-41
Description
Found that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Greenland is low, which indicates that the prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes is high.
Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in a Woodland Cree Community: 14 Year Trends
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda G. Bruner
Karen E. Chad
Roland F. Dyck
Canadian Journal of Diabetes, vol. 33, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 105-113
Description
Discusses a study on high prevalence rates of obesity, particularly among females, in a Woodland Cree Community, and concludes that intervention programs are needed.
Preventing Infant Deaths Among Aboriginal and Teenage Women in South Australia. Part 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Strategic Health Research Program (SHRP)
Preventing Infant Deaths Among Aboriginal and Teenage Women in South Australia. Part 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Strategic Health Research Program (SHRP)
Prevention Education Harm Reduction Report
Alternate Title
Circle of Eagles Lodge Society & Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Harm Reduction Project: Dialogue and Gathering Report
[Circle of Eagles Lodge Society and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Harm Reduction Dialogue Report]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Sophia Vitalis
Sarah Wood
Kim van der Woerd
Amanda Card
Billie Joe Rogers]
Description
Divided into two parts: first section describes the Circle of Eagles Lodge Society's Circle of Care Harm Reduction for Indigenous Brothers and Sisters on Parole project aimed at addressing the opioid crisis among federal parolees; the second section describes the community dialogue and gathering report.
Primary Birthing Attendants and Birth Outcomes in Remote Inuit Communities: A Natural "Experiment" in Nunavik, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F. Simonet
R. Wilkins
E. Labranche
J. Smylie
M. Heaman ... [et al.]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 63, no. 7, July 2009, pp. 546-551
Description
Examined outcomes from the 14 communities in Nunavik for the period of 1989 to 2000. Compared results from the Hudson Bay area, where Inuit midwives perform maternity care, to Ungava Bay area where western physicians performed the same function.
Principles, Approaches, and Methods for Evaluation in Indigenous Contexts: A Grey Literature Scoping Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kriti Chandna
Michelle M . Vine
Susan J . Snelling
Rachel Harris
Janet Smylie
Heather Manson
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring, 2019, pp. [21]-47
Description
Review conducted to identify principles, approaches, methods, tools and frameworks reported from 2000-2015 in Canada, United States, New Zealand and Australia.
Program Celebrates 17 Years of Supporting Kohkums
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 3, March 2009, p. 1,3
Description
Looks at the 17th anniversary of the Strengthening the Circle Program that combines kohkums, traditional values, practices and the Cree language.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 3.
Promising Approaches for Addressing/Preventing Abuse of Older Adults in First Nations Communities: A Critical Analysis and Environmental Scan Of Tools and Approaches
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
April Struthers
Georgina Martin
Alison Leaney
Description
Report identifies prevention strategies that can be used to address issues of physical, sexual, financial, and psychological abuse.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Timiskaming First Nation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Production
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Jason Lawrence
Description
Focuses on the community's efforts to deal with Hepatitis C through education, outreach, and healing.
Duration: 27:33.
Promonting Improved Mental Health for Canada's Indigenous Peoples: A Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents and Psychiatrists
Author/Creator
IPAC-RCPSC Psychiatry Curriculum Development Working Group
Description
Sections for facilitators and learners and list of readings and resources. Aim is to promote understanding of pervasive and ongoing health disparities, and educate health care providers about social, political, linguistic, economic and spiritual realms occupied by patients.
Promoting Culturally Safe Care for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Patients: A Core Curriculum for Residents and Physicians
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
IPAC-RCPSC Core Curriculum Development Working Group
Description
Sections for facilitators and learners and list of readings and resources. Aim is to promote understanding of pervasive and ongoing health disparities, and educate health care providers about social, political, linguistic, economic and spiritual realms occupied by patients.
Promoting, Developing, and Sustaining Sports, Recreation, and Physical Activity in British Columbia for Aboriginal Youth
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rosalin Hanna
Description
Shows how physical activity programs have a positive effect on mental wellness and disease prevention.
Protecting Our Mob From the Pandemic: Deployment of an Indigenous-Led Specialist Mobile Flu Clinic Team in Response to an Emerging Public Health Threat (H1N1 09 Swine Flu)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Keith 'Bunda' Hunter
Chris Kewley
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 33, no. 6, November/December 2009, pp. 30-33
Description
Looks at successful treatment against a strain of influenza affecting vulnerable Indigenous communities in rural and remote areas of New South Wales.
Providing a Birth Support Program for Women of the North Island Region, Vancouver Island: An Aboriginal Midwifery Demonstration Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stefan Grzybowski
Jude Kornelsen
Shelagh Levangie
Description
Reports results of consultations with 115 participants in eight communities and makes recommendations for developing a local midwifery service.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Psychiatric Research in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986: A Systematic Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jouko Miettunen
Marianne Haapea
Lassi Björnholm
Sanna Huhtaniska
Teija Juol ...[et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Systematic literature search of PubMed and Scopus reveals 94 articles on psychiatric research conducted on the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986. Research includes information on early predictors of several psychiatric diagnoses, and novel findings related to brain imaging and cognition.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Qanukkanniq? The GN Report Card: Analysis & Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
North Sky Consulting Group
Description
Overview of government services in Nunavut resulting from a series of public consultations.
Qaujijausimajuni Tunngaviqarniq: Using Knowledge and Experience as a Foundation for Action: A Discussion Paper on Suicide Prevention in Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Working Group For A Suicide Prevention Strategy For Nunavut
Description
Looks at the development of suicidal behaviour and effective ways of reducing deaths. Includes recommendations for a prevention strategy.
Qualitative Identification and Characterization of Self-reported Symptoms Arising in Humans during Experimental Exposure to Cold Air
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rita Sjöström
Lars Söderström
Carolina Klockmo
Alexander Patrician
Thomas Sandström ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study aims to describe and categorize symptoms experienced by people exposed to cold air. 50 distinct symptoms were reported by 34 participants, symptoms were grouped into ten sub-categories and two major categories; airway versus whole body symptoms.
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Quantification of Interplaying Relationships between Wellbeing Priorities of Aboriginal Peoples in Remote Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Schultz
Stephen J. Quinn
Tammy Abbott
Sheree Cairney
Jessica Yamaguchi
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Study examines the priorities that Indigenous people living in remote communities in Australia have for defining their own well-being and how they rank those priorities in their own understandings of health.
Quanuippitali?: The International Polar Year Nunavut Inuit Child Health Survey: 2007-2008
Alternate Title
Canadian International Polar Year (IP) Inuit Health Survey
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. M. Egeland
Description
Summary of survey on health standing and living conditions of preschool Inuit children living in sixteen communities in Nunavut.
Quebec First Nations' Health and Social Services Governance Process: Effective Governance for the Wellness of First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Georges A. Legault
Race Relations, Indigenous Australia and the Social Impact of Professional Australian Football
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Hallinan
Barry Judd
Sport in Society, vol. 12, no. 9, The Social Impact of Sport, 2009, pp. 1220-1235
Description
Looks at how Indigenous athletes, especially in the sports of football and rugby have become symbols for what is perceived by white Australians to be progress in race relations.
Racialized Identity and Health in Canada: Results From a Nationally Representative Survey
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerry Veenstra
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 69, no. 4, August 2009, pp. 538-542
Description
Research conducted on 91,123 Canadians aged 25 and older to investigate health effects of racialization in Canada.
A Rare Case of Warrdenburg Syndrome with Unilateral Hearing Loss Caused by Nonsense Variant c.772C>T (p.Arg259*) in the MITF Gene in Yakut Patient from the Eastern Siberia (Sakha Republic, Russia)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nikolay A. Barashkov
Georgii P. Romanov
Uigulaana P. Borisova
Aisen V. Solovyev
Vera G. Pshennikova ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study confirm the association of pathogenic variants in the MITF gene with WS type 2 and expanded data on the variability of audiological features of the WS.
The Rationale for Developing a Programme of Services by and for Indigenous Men in a First Nations Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie George
Melody Morton Ninomiya
Kathryn Graham
Sharon Bernards Samantha Wells
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 158-167
Description
Article summarizes the results of the mixed-methods research conducted in Kettle & Stoney Plain First Nation that focused on the mental health needs of Indigenous Men. Research examines the factors that contribute to mental health issues, the experience of men seeking supports and services, and identifies ways to address mental health in this community.
Realistic Expectations: The Changing Role of Paraprofessional Health Workers in the First Nation Communities in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
B. Minore
K. Jacklin
M. Boone
H. Cromarty
Education for Health, vol. 22, no. 2, 2009, pp. 1-9
Description
Interviews First Nations paraprofessional health workers in two northern Ontario communities and looks at proposed national competency-based standards for education, certification, and regulation.
The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha
E-Books
Author/Creator
Diane Glancy
Recent Actions by Māori Politicians and Health Advocates for a Tobacco-Free Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Brief Review
Alternate Title
Occasional Paper (Whakauae Research Services) ; 2009/1
Recent Actions by Maori Politicians and Health Advocates for a Tobacco-Free Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Brief Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Heather Gifford
Shane Kawenata Bradbrook
no. 2009/1
Description
Reviews key advocacy approaches and political party policy developments for Indigenous tobacco control.
Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of the Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1b
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Wholeness: Moving From Visions to Actions
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
National Collaborating Centre For Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
Arlene Moscovitch
Description
Looks at links between housing and tuberculosis, food security, health and mental health well-being Duration: 20:35.
Recognizing & Treating Skin Conditions: How to Recognise and Treat Scabies, Skin Sores, Tinea and Other Skin Conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
East Arnhem Regional Healthy Skin Project
Description
Uses photographs and brief descriptions to show and explain different types of skin conditions.
Recommendations re Inquest Report for Brian Lloyd Sinclair
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Marc Cormier]
Description
Sinclair was a 45-year-old Aboriginal man who died after sitting for 34 hours waiting for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre's emergency department.
Reconceiving Notions of Aboriginal Identity
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Policy Research Series (Institute on Governance)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carrie Bourassa
Ian Peach
Description
Discusses how colonization and construction of identities have affected the health and well-being of Aboriginal people.
Reconciliation Action Plans: Discussion Paper: From Good Intentions to Action That Works: Measuring the Contribution of Reconciliation Actions in Closing the Gap
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Reconciliation Australia
Description
Discusses measuring the impact plans have on improving social determinants on health and life expectancy for Australians and Indigenous people.
Reconciliation in Aboriginal Child Welfare and Child Health
Alternate Title
Child & Youth Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
Description
Fact sheet looks at influences on health outcomes for Aboriginal children and youth and improved child welfare.
Recreational Tool Kit for Rural, Northern & Remote Aboriginal Communities: Shared Knowledge & Resources in Recreational Programming
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joni Shawana
Warren Greene
Description
Based on the identified needs of the users as compiled by an expert committee.
Recruitment and Retention of Inuit Nurses in Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aarluk Consulting
Description
Looks at the strategy developed to address the chronic shortage of nurses in Nunavut.
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Redefining How Success is Measured in Aboriginal Learning in Canada
Alternate Title
OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life ; 3rd, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Cappon
Jarrett Laughlin
Description
Discusses how a holistic approach to lifelong learning can improve community well-being for Aboriginal people.