Health & Well-Being

Uses information from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013. Statistics for child functioning issues, caregiver risk factor concerns, and household risk factors.

Study indicated residents generated only one third of the U.S. average of solid waste with far fewer hazardous materials.

Brief biography of author and physician, whose writings focused on Native American spirituality, morality and mythology. Best-known for the autobiographical works Indian Boyhood and From the Deep Woods to Civilization.

Front exterior view of the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta (no date).

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that shows Santa (Charlie Beattie) with Edwin Gopher at the North Battleford Indian Hospital 25 December 1953.

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that appears alongside the same photograph as it appeared in a North Battleford newspaper on 7 January 1954. Part of the caption reads: "Florence Fiddler, a bed patient, was completely nonplussed by it all, what with the photographer, a life-sized doll, a telephone set, and Santa in person with another gift." Charlie Beattie plays Santa.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.Env.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

A photograph from Miss J. M. Morton's scrap book (A-792-2) that appears next to the same photograph that was in the North Battleford News Optimist 15 July 1955. The caption reads: "Chief Andrew Swimmer, son of the late Chief Sam Swimmer and successor to his father at the Sweetgrass Reserve, is shown presenting Dr. Head with a framed photograph of the doctor and Sam Swimmer taken a few years ago when Dr. Head was made an honorary chief of the band."

Based on 10 telephone interviews with government and non-government frontline workers and literature review. Identifies challenges (communication within division or department, role clarity, confidentiality, support for "non-acute" children, need for support and relief, and lack of continuity) and best practices (early intervention, holistic service, interagency information sharing, empowerment and skill-development for patients and families, culturally safe practice, professional development, and clinical supervision).

Looks at intervention and prevention focusing on population and individual level risk and protective factors. Includes suggestions.

Annotated list of material published between 1978 and 2016.

Discussion of whether the state is fulfilling its legislated mandate to be a "wise and compassionate parent" focusing on the Saskatchewan context.

Discusses using a holistic approach to improving Indigenous health and fostering the development of Aboriginal citizenship through early childhood development programs.

Report reveals that 90% of all violent crime in Australia takes place in the family or acquaintance circle.

Examines factors involved with children of substance abusers and the need to extend the studies over longer periods of time for more substantial conclusions.

Brief article explains the details and forms of, "time out" discipline for young children.

Looks at the meaning of health and well-being to Chickasaw families.

Uses numbers to show how some population groups in Canada, including Aboriginal Canadians, are more apt to experience chronic disease.

Overview of consultations held with the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community in May and June of 2005 to review new guidelines. Recommendations provided.

Created by the Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the intent of this publication is to promote health research methods that are in line with and sensitive to Aboriginal values and traditions.

Book review of: The Circle Game by Roland Christjohn and Sherri Young.

Evaluation initiative did not impose a rigid top down plan but allowed for varied local solutions.

Book review of Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood and Peter Bjerregaard.

Database covers wide range of health conditions and search results may be narrowed by geographic region, peoples, publication types, etc.

Statistical data from Health Transitions in Arctic Populations used to compile statistical tables on all circumpolar countries and their northern regions outlining health status, determinants and healthcare.

Overview of future challenges for the North.

Discusses challenges faced by Indigenous populations and identifies some of the local, national and international initiatives underway to address these issues. Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

Describes how local activists in the remote Northern Territory, Australian community were able to reduce air pollution by planting trees supplied by the Rio Tinto mining company.

Examines the debris recovery efforts surrounding the crash of Soviet nuclear-powered satellite in 1978; notes that a misunderstanding of the North, its climate, its residents and their cultures created many barriers for Canadian and United States military teams.

Examination reveals improvements in care and greater access to specialized health care services.

Author of Clearing the Plains speaks about how government policy, use of food as a weapon to force First Nations to sign treaties, and its failure to fulfill treaty obligations contributed to the famine and disease which decimated Indigenous population. Duration: 1:40: 58.

Author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life discusses his research. Duration: 1:04:16.

To accompany award-winning book by James Daschuk which examines ecological, economic, and political factors affecting Aboriginal health and mortality from the early 1700s to the end of the 19th century.

Brief review looks at publications from 2005-2010.

Looks at recommendations for response to climate change and health.

Overview of a workshop, held in Anchorage, Alaska, February 13-15, 2008, including summaries of presentations.

Looks at research pertaining to impacts of climate change and strategies for adaptation and mitigation in the areas of sovereignty and self-determination, culture and cultural identity, Indigenous community health indicators, and economies and livelihoods.

Contends that multidisciplinary research is the way to successfully bring in a gender perspective.

Reviews two projects that assess the impact of climate change on the health of two Inuit regions.

Assessment involved four steps: scoping to describe local conditions, surveying to collect data, analysis, and planning. Goal was to improve response capacity of vulnerable communities.

Study suggests that while use of sea ice can result in physical injury, there are also benefits related to mental/emotional, spiritual, social and cultural health which need to be considered when discussing the impact of changing environmental conditions.

Describes changes over the past fifty years due to the interaction of climate change with social, economic, political, and technological changes.

Study conducted to determine the prevalence of this condition among the Oji-Cree.

Explores impact of quota program at the intern and junior doctor levels.

Contains statements of support from various Australian organizations regarding health care inequalities between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal citizens.

Webcast presentation of the closing of the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium. Duration: 14:11.

Remarks from the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) Conference discuss the challenges of Indigenous Health Promotion and all major health indicators lagging behind the Australian general population.

Conference closing remarks acknowledge the contributions of the participants and organizers.