Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 450-452
Description
Scholarship program purposes are to increase the number of Native Hawaiians in health professions and to get them back to serving in communities in need.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring , 2001, pp. 43-65
Description
Argues that outpost clinics delivered standard nursing care but that the Federal government did not want to live up to its health care responsibilities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2, Spring, 1984, pp. 83-101
Description
Examines health care practices for pregnant Navajo women and the need for more culturally sensitive approaches to help reduce mortality rates. Part 1 of 2.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 3, Summer, 1984, pp. 199-210
Description
Examines health care practices for pregnant Navajo women and the need for more culturally sensitive approaches to help reduce mortality rates for Navajo women and infants. Part 2 of 2.
Journal of American College Health, vol. 49, no. 5, March 2001, pp. 237-242
Description
Studies of the current health status of healthy young Native American men are rare compared with the attention researchers have given the many problems that plague the lives of these young men.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-11
Description
Looks at evaluation tool which recognizes the importance of culture and spirituality, providing a balance between four dimensions: family, physical, cognitive or intellectual and spiritual.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-25
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Discusses how the Niagara Regional Native Center operates a therapeutic health program which utilizes both traditional and western health care practices.
Designed to improve client services by providing information on: informed consent and its implications, diagnosis and the implications for clients, effect of possible disclosure of a positive result, importance of counselling, relaying both negative and positive test results, and anxiety, depression and suicide.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 7, no. 2, [2012], pp. 112-129
Description
Assert that preventative programs offered at Aboriginal Friendship Centres, have been positively backed by existing research and should be expanded and supported further.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 322-326
Description
Looks at a program that specifically provides healthcare services to enrollees classified as aged, blind, disabled, in-state foster children and children who live out-of-state in subsidized adoption.
Record of Discussions of the Honouring Our Strengths: National Renewal Forum ...
Documents & Presentations
Description
Discussions centred actions taken as a result of the Honouring Our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations People in Canada.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, July/August 2001, pp. 16-18
Description
Reports on the findings of the conference held in Adelaide, Australia which examined some of the work being done on the issue of Indigenous family violence.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-18
Description
Studies the experiences of over 800 Saskatchewan aboriginal individuals with conventional health care services and suggests a more culturally sympathetic approach would result in better outcomes.