Health & Well-Being

Examines the practice of participatory research in primary care, public health and health promotion.

Insights into how sustainable prosperity can be achieved in the North.

Study focused on: linkages between intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools and involvement in child protection systems and homelessness; the effect on sense of identity and connection to heritage; promising practices in providing supports and services; and life factors and experiences which mitigate effects of intergenerational trauma.

One of five publications that report on the work of the Funding, Accountability and Results (FAR) project

Analysis of calls from Kids Help Line (KHL) reveals different levels of issues compared with non-Indigenous Australians.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2012.

Presents evidence gathered from focus groups involving youth, parents, service providers and community leaders, as well as statistical information, program inventory, and social network analysis. Focuses on indicators related to education, employment, health and mental health, and sense of belonging.

Looks at the history of arsenic pollution from the mine and the present and future danger to Yellowknife's Dene First Nation.

Discusses how use of poisonous preservatives in past conservation and curatorial practices have rendered objects hazardous to human health, thereby preventing their use in ceremonies. Communities are left with the responsibility of determining the chemicals used and mitigating their effects.

Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2012.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2009.

Discusses potential health risks by contamination of traditional foods and the economic and socio-cultural impacts.

Looks at nine programs with innovative approaches to promoting traditional foods and the promising practices which were developed.

Presents an aboriginal myth in order that health workers may better learn the thoughts, values and ideas of the clients that they interact with.

Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2009.

Part of Phase 1 information study on sources of knowledge for the State of the Watershed Report. This report should not be considered a comprehensive overview of documented Traditional Knowledge.

Discusses five themes that were identified from the interviews: hunger, sharing, gathering, medicine and religion.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 2014.

Public Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Discussion of health professional training programs and the Universities of Manitoba and Alberta.

Looks at health services transfer, integrated community-based health services and self government and policy summaries. Handbook 2: The Health Services Transfer Handbook 3: The New Environment

Describes elements of the Community Health Plan (CHP) as well as the process, procedures and policies for transfer. Handbook 1 - An Introduction to Three Approaches Handbook 3 - The New Environment

Looks at the post transfer environment, accountability, roles and responsibilities and policy summaries. Handbook 1 - An Introduction to Three Approaches Handbook 2 - The Health Services Transfer

Agreement for addressing rights and title interests of First Nations.

Findings from national study, Evaluating the Impact of a National Support Network for Students, Interns and Post-Doctoral Researchers in Aboriginal Health. looks at the research capacity building and influence of career results in Canadian universities over a ten-year period.

Discusses approaches taken by the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan to create and implement a program aimed at building a local Indigenous health professional workforce.

Social and Preventive Medicine Thesis (M.Sc.)--Université Laval, 2001.

Examines human rights theories to see if a human rights framework can be used to correct differences in health, education and social services provided to Aboriginal communities.

Website contains information and resources on Treaty 8 including articles, maps, legal decisions, list of nations, education, and employment opportunities.

Discusses the Treaty of Waitangi and how it can be used to improve health outcomes for the Māori people.

Nutritional Biology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

Literature review aims to help identify interventions addressing health disparities in the Métis population.

Analysis results taken from licenses issued under the Nunavut Scientists Act only.

Suggests that there are inequities in health risk research that need to be addressed.

Original version published in 1998. This version contains ammendments from 2000, 2002, and 2005. See section six.

See chapter nine, p. 109.

See chapter nine.

Contains several contributing eulogies to the Australian Aboriginal healthcare advocate who died at age 50.

Provides summary on commitments and principles of the agreement and progress towards implementing capacity for governance of First Nations health information.

Discusses need for research that will address the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Consists of two modules "Characteristics of Existing Public Health Climate Change Adaptation Interventions: A Scoping Review" and "Indigenous Lens on Climate Change Adaptation Planning".

Looks at a ways in which diverse perspectives might work together to answer questions about the health of Indigenous people and communities.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine contends that government funding for First Nations basic services is inadequate.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

Discusses results from the University of Saskatchewan survey Taking the Pulse, 2012. Contains data on Aboriginal issues, health, wellbeing, family, economics, and crime. Scroll down to page 6 to read article.

Describes the work of the J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories and discusses the University's program designed to recruit and retain Aboriginal health practitioners.

Examines the results of combining two registries from Murmansk County and Norway and Archangelsk County to address the gap from defects not detectable at birth like hearing and mental illness and physicians improper recording.