Chronic Diseases in Canada, vol. 31, no. 1, December 2010, pp. 22-26
Description
Discusses the need for program planning and identification of new priorities to aid in arthritis care in Aboriginal populations, due to high prevalence.
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. suppl.2, June 2010, pp. [229]-234
Description
Discusses initiatives to prevent Early childhood caries (ECC), including culturally appropriate programs which build on traditional health practices, and highlights the national Aboriginal health and oral surveys.
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 159-212
Description
Book reviews of:
Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 by Victoria Smith
Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna
Conversations with Sherman Alexie edited by Nancy Peterson
Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins
Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber
Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith
Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 by William B.
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 48, no. 3-4, 2011, pp. 426-438
Description
Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered.