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.
Non-Insured Health Benefits Ontario Region: Prescription Drug Trends
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Health Canada
Description
Statistics for opiate use and the medications used in treatment of diabetes, heart conditions, mental health conditions, inhalers for respiratory conditions, smoking cessation products, and reproductive and sexual health. Covers the years 2000 to 2009.
State Center for Health Statistics And Office Minority Health and Health Disparities
Description
Facts about mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, access to health and health of children from infant to adolescent in the American Indian population.
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.
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.
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.
BMJ, vol. 341, no. 7783, November 27, 2010, p. 1137
Description
Author studies introduction of snowmobile concurrent to the medical interventions in an isolated Skolt Sami community which sometimes produced questionable results.
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, vol. 16, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 450-456
Description
Survey results of four facilities, which implemented HIV screening on persons 13 to 65 years old, concluded that more information and training is needing on HIV screening guidelines, execution of strategies and state regulations.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-25
Description
Discusses how the Niagara Regional Native Center operates a therapeutic health program which utilizes both traditional and western health care practices.
Describes a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention program in lab mice that had a significant effect on increasing Alaska Native students comprehension of the negative impacts of drinking during pregnancy.
Looks at health determinants such as chronic illness and risky behaviors that effect well-being and social determinants that contribute to disadvantages in areas of education, income and employment.
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.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 70, no. 5, 2011, pp. 552-563
Description
Study conducted in the Sioux Lookout Zone highlights key problems associated with the delivery of appropriate care and offers suggestions for improving clinical outcomes.