Health & Well-Being

Reports on new health minister and new ministry of Indigenous services.

Provides information about cadmium, its uses, and how if affects people.

Surveys statistical data dealing with population, economy, health, family integrity and social conditions which demonstrate persistent inequalities and relationships among poverty, health and social structure.

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Centre opens in North Battleford.

Uses information from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey to link contemporary health and mental health conditions to residential school familial attendance.

Presents full themed issue focused on the lasting legacy of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and how it defined North American politics.

Discusses the negative effects on people and the environment due to oil sands mining operations.

Reports on 5.1 billion dollar program to improve health care, cancelled in 2006 by Conservative government.

Outlines the objectives, methods, and expected results of study.

File contains a report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1948 for the Indian Affairs Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources. It is a comprehensive report that includes demographic data and the activities or "progress" of Indians in each region of Canada (enfranchisement, land sales etc). There is also an editorial titled "The Canadian Indian" that appears to be an educational press release about the departments view on misconceptions about Canadian Indians.

This booklet covers subjects such as early administration of Aboriginals in Canada, treaties, education, housing, population and health.

Study assessed health and social indicators and responses from questionnaires to 34 Manitoba communities, including Winnipeg.

Initial descriptive page links to five reports 1) Unikkaaqatigiit: Perspectives From Inuit In Canada 2) Inuvialuit Regional Report 3) Nunavut Regional Report 4) Nunavik Regional Report 5) Nunatsiavut Regional Report.

Study findings indicate that Canadian Aboriginal subjects differ from both Asian and Caucasian genotype patterns for these mutant alleles, which may have consequences for clinical drug use among Canadian Aboriginals.

Includes definitions, descriptions, and key and enabling competencies for each of seven roles: expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar and professional. Supplement to CanMEDS-FM 2017 competency framework.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

Discussion on the rationalization and justification of coerced and racially segregated hospitals.

Looks at opportunities in the areas of physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation counseling, health information management, and nursing.

Advises Australian Indigenous people to take control of their employment destiny through a career plan in the healthcare sector.

Fact sheet discusses importance of health and well-being to infant attachment and the impact colonization has had on relationships in Aboriginal families. Provides list of online resources for parents and caregivers.

Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada speaks on inequities in funding for Aboriginal children, focusing on Jordan's Principle, Shannen's Dream, and the discrimination complaint lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (slide show) Total Duration: 41:88.

Provides a synopsis and commentary of Healthy Country, Healthy People: The Relationship Between Indigenous Health Status and "Caring for Country" by C.P. Burgess, F.H. Johnston, H.L. Berry, J. MacDonnell, D. Yibarbuk... [et al.] and published in Medical Journal of Australia, 190 (10), 567-572.

Briefly outlines the aims of the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress in Australia.

Describes program which uses story telling traditions in teaching AIDS prevention.

Short video on researcher's interests in Indigenous health, social justice, and the challenges faced by women.

Website contains news, resources and links to health services, family support services, child and family services, research and development, and family justice.

Chapter in book: Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice by Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health. Scroll down to page 92 to read article.

Third edition.

Examines Gavin Mooney's contributions to health economics in relation to equity and social justice, social determinants of health in Indigenous populations, and the supporting role communities play in decision-making about their health care systems.

Includes history of Gross Domestic Product as a measure of wellbeing, discussion of other methods including those developed by Indigenous peoples, and the rationale for creating different indices.

Social Science Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2020.

Website provides links to information on health news, the Network Environments for Aboriginal Research BC (NEARBC) program, research, publications, and archive for past news articles.

Properties of ear wax (cerumen) of 483 Native Americans has frequency close to mongoloid peoples and origins.

Author describes his experiences chairing a session of the First National Aboriginal Health Worker Conference held in Darwin, Australia in October of 1978.

Senator discusses challenges facing American Indian youth such as having a conventional childhood, getting a good education and being able to find employment in today's market.

Briefly looks at improvements to Aboriginal health since the conference.

Impact of contact with Europeans on the traditional diet of Native Americans in this state.

Describes the development of a new research model based on shifting the relations of surveillance.

Excerpt from The Story of Saskatchewan and its People, vol. 1