Information from the BC Ministry of Health Health System Matrix database. Includes hospital, physician, chronic conditions, home and residential care service data.
Examines health risks, health status and health services use utilizing comprehensive population-level health data. Primary source is the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.
Documentary about the dozens of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls who have disappeared on the stretch of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Focuses on the family of Ramona Lisa Wilson, whose murder remains unsolved after twenty-five years.
Duration: 50:10.
Discusses the linkage between the frontier culture and alcohol abuse, and the higher rates of consumption among Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in Alaska and Northern Canada.
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care , vol. 21, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 449-454
Description
Study based on interviews with eight participants from across forty-three communities and focused on five key prevention issues: definition, types of activities, prevention levels, target groups, and facilitation and barriers.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, [Indigenous Health Special Issue], April 2010, pp. 362-373
Description
Contends that a Community Based/Tribally Based Participatory approach (CBPR/TPR) was the best practice approach and was congruent with the community's Tribal culture.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxiii-xxvii
Description
Presents the People Awakening Project as a good example of a strength-based and culturally-appropriate approach.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxiii.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 27, no. 1, 2020, pp. 64-85
Description
Seven themes emerged which described structural, social, and geographical barriers that affected access to health services and therefore increased risk-taking behaviours.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 9-22
Description
Study on prenatal alcohol abuse in the lives of young Aboriginal women and the connections between that abuse and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, sexual abuse, extreme violence, and gangs.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, July/August 1998, pp. 2-3
Description
Reports on a program which encompassed older, influential women in a remote, outback community in Northern Territory, Australia empowering them to take responsibility for their own well being.
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2010.
Focuses on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Provides information on background of the national survey, recommendations of feasibility study, development Manitoba survey and questionnaire, and presents results of key variables in graphic form.
Looks at the White Earth Nation Tribal Health Model, which is harm reduction approach; the Swinomish Tribal Health Model, which is an integrated health care approach; the Pascua Yaqui Tribe's Peer Support Model; and the Lummi Nation's Healing Spirit Model, which is a multi-pronged harm reduction and integrated health care approach.