Health & Well-Being

Book review of: Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy by John Richards.

Discusses filters to be used in systematic reviews.

Series of 15 short videos (approx. 5 min. each) on a variety of topics.

Documentary takes a critical look at the environmental public health challenge as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada. Duration: 30:15.

Findings of the interview study included the view that research is a necessary source of health care and a mistrust regarding research due to past historical issues.

Looks at being prepared for possible poor health especially for women. Article located by scrolling to page 9.

Examines a conceptual framework used with food security movement that helps young people understand their social context and values and engages them in social justice work.

Guide to accompany film, Crude Sacrifice. Target audience ages 13 to 17. Contains questions, fun facts and eleven activities to help students develop a deeper understanding of the issues.

Discusses the rapid rate of change endured by Indigenous Australians and the resulting impact on their health.

Study showed that interpreters must act as both translators and cultural mediators in order for patients to be satisfied with their medical care.

Covers general issues, policy, prevention and chapters focused on persons of African, Asian, Latino and Native American decent.

Discusses themes coming out of study: "the connection between cultural continuity and health and well-being, conceptualizations of cultural continuity and connectedness, the role of knowledge transmission journeys of cultural (dis)continuity, and barriers to cultural continuity."

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2004.

Data collected in two communities through interviews and detailed observations.

Authors connect the health and well-being of Indigenous males with the practice of cultural identities, obligations, and kinship systems; make policy recommendations that aim to improve the cultural engagement and consequently the well-being of Indigenous men.

Looks at effects of colonization on First Nations people and the process to decolonize.

Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future , dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.

List of pertinent sources with a short synopsis for each item.

Contends that key to understanding is to bridge gaps between providers and recipients.

Health survey of children, aged 3-5 years looks at factors associated with indigeneity, the physical and socio-economic environment, health behaviours and health histories.

Compares responses of 60 Anglophone, Francophone and First Nations individuals.

Describes the collective experiences of those who support appropriate research methods in working with Native peoples

Discusses programs that have been shown or have the potential to reduce misuse and promote well-being. Seventy-one were reviewed using both Western evaluation methods as well as those developed and refined using practice-based evidence.

Reports a good health care strategy should include: health professions communicating in the local language, combining local knowledge with modern medicine, community control and development, and use Aboriginal concepts of health in care and policy.

Developed to help employees, teams, volunteers, board members, and social service organizations as a whole. Information is divided into three sections: take care of yourself, take care of each other, and take care of this place.

Topics include context, healing journey and resiliency theory, culturally appropriate evidence-informed practices and examples of programs in Canada and the United States.

Presents a summary of the Aboriginal content from the Canadian Public Health Association's Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health.

3rd edition. Provides overview and directory.

Contends that formation of health perceptions comes from range of disciplines, including social comparison theories, models of illness behaviour, survey literature, and linguistics.

Compares life expectancy rates between Aboriginal males and females and non-Aboriginal males and females by State/Territory in Australia.

Study conclusions demonstrate that Aboriginal populations are distinct from their Asian ancestors as they do not necessarily share the same polymorphic patterns or allele frequencies.

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--Monash University, 2015.

Introduction to the CircHOB, an open access online resource, that will periodically feature data outputs from the Circumpolar Health Observatory.

History of the Mushuau Innu including issues of poverty, social disintegration, abuse and federal policy.

Book review of: Dealing with Alcohol by Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray.

Study conducted to evaluate health outcomes when undergoing kidney replacement therapy.

Reports on concerns with pesticides, children's health and mental illness in adults.

Research project aims to identify Inuit values, beliefs, and actions with the potential to improve community wellness.

Explores arts-based research methods.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2004.

Compares Fair PharmaCare and PharmaCare Plan C, the provincial prescription drug program, to the non-insured Health Benefits federal program.

Paper presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) twenty-fifth National Conference.