Health & Well-Being

Bibliography of British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Safyan
BC Studies, no. 177, Spring, 2013, pp. 205-224
Description
Some Aboriginal material included. Lists theses and dissertations published between 2006 and 2012.
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A Bibliography of Literature Related to Maori Mental Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Agee
Philip Culbertson
Laura Mariu
New Zealand Journal of Counselling, vol. 26, no. 2, 2005, pp. 1-36
Description
Includes books, journals, research reports and policy documents dealing specifically with the Maori.
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A Bibliography on Aboriginal and Minority Concerns: Identity, Prejudice, Marginalisation, and Healing in Relation to Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Ecology of Place

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Randolph Bowers
Couselling, Psychotherapy and Health, vol. 3, no. 2, Intellectual Disability and Indigenous Special Issue, 2007, pp. 46-88
Description
Summarizes resources in the "Dr Randolph Bowers Collection" in the archive of the Mi'kmaq Resource Centre at Cape Breton University. Covers works collected by the author until 2007. General as well as Aboriginal material.
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Big Brother's Hunger

Alternate Title
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 2
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the the second of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Halifax. Talaga's second lecture focuses on the effects for Indigenous peoples of displacement from their traditional territories and of ongoing contemporary extractive resource economies. Duration: 53:59
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Bill S-11: The Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act

Alternate Title
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 40-3-S11-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Auclair
Tonina Simeone
Description
Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which provides for federal regulations relating to provision of drinking water, water quality standards and disposal of waste water.
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Bill S-8: The Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act

Alternate Title
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 41-1-S8-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tonina Simeone
Shauna Troniak
Description
Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which provides for federal regulations relating to provision of drinking water, water quality standards and disposal of waste water. Revised version.
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Biological Relationships among the Iroquois

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen P. Langdon
Human Biology, vol. 67, no. 3, June 1995, pp. 355-374
Description
Examines the differences found in Iroquois and Algonquians to determine the genetic drift between them.
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Birth Outcomes among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Populations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda J. Sheppard
Gabriel D. Shapiro
Tracey Bushnik
Russell Wilkins
Serenity Perry ... [et al.]
Health Reports, vol. 28, no. 11, November 2017, pp. 11-15
Description
Compares rates of preterm birth, small-for-gestational-age birth, large-for-gestational-age birth, stillbirth, and infant mortality (neonatal, postneonatal, and cause-specific) in cohort of 17,547 births to Indigenous mothers and 112,112 births to non-Indigenous mothers from 2004 through 2006.
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Bishop Durieu's Chinook Bible History

Documents & Presentations
Description
Chinook Bible History (CBH) was translated into Chinook shorthand by Father LeJeune and published in sections in the Kamloops Wawa in it's entirety the year of Bishop Durieu's death. Similar to the newsletter format, CBH includes English titles with the main text in Chinook shorthand. The author's name is misspelled in CBH as "Bishop Durien."
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Blood Concentrations of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Indigenous Communities of the Russian Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A.A. Dudarev
A.V. Konaplev
T.M. Sandanger
S.V. Vlasov
G.I. Miretsky ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 179-182
Description
Investigations revealed that toxins in blood samples from Russian Arctic citizens were similar to those in coastal areas of Greenland and Canada.
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The Blood Groups and Other Features of the Micmac Indians

Alternate Title
The Blood Groups and Other Features of the Mi'kmaq Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Ruggles Gates
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 68, July-December 1938, pp. 283-298
Description
Discusses blood types and genetic factors of Shubenacadie children in Nova Scotia.
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Blood Groups of the Naskapi and Montagnais Indians of Schefferville, Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Baruch S. Blumberg
John R. Martin
Fred H. Allen
Judith L. Weiner
Elaine M. Vitagliano
Alan Cooke
Human Biology, vol. 36, no. 3, September 1964, pp. 263-272
Description
Findings indicate that the two groups appear to have significantly different gene pools with respect to some blood groups which would consider them distinct sub-populations.
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The Blood Tribe: Adapting to Climate Change

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorenzo Magzul
Prairie Forum, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 289-309
Description
Discusses the socio-economic impact that climate change will have on the Blood Tribe in the South Saskatchewan River Basin.
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Blueprint on Aboriginal Health: A 10-Year Transformative Plan

Documents & Presentations
Description
A national plan for closing the gap in health outcomes for the First Nation, Inuit and Métis people of Canada. Discussed at the meeting of the First Ministers and Leaders of National Aboriginal organizations, Strengthening Relationships and Closing the Gap, held November 24-25, 2005 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
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Book Notices

Book Reviews
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21032
Description
Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine. Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard. Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.
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[Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Nathaniel Pollock
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, pp. 126-128
Description
Review of: Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation by Marie Wadden.
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Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Myers
Helen Fast
Mina Kislalioglu Berkes
Fikret Berkes
Shirley Thompson ... [et al.]]
Description
Plain language version of Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck.
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Breastfeeding as a Means to Prevent Infant Morbidity and Mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A Population Prevented Fraction Analysis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn E. McIsaac
Rahim Moineddin
Flora I. Matheson
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 4, May/June 2015, pp. 217-222
Description
Study estimated the proportion of ear and gastrointestinal infections, lower respiratory tract infections requiring hospitalization, and sudden infant deaths which were preventable. Calculated for First Nations (both on- and off-reserve), Métis and Inuit as well as all Canadian infants for comparison.
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Bridging Cultural Divides

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elsa Reid
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 18-19
Description
Discusses the design and artwork on an Aboriginal Health Banner that welcomes Indigenous communities to Hawkesbury District Health Service.
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Bridging the Triple Divide: Performance and Innovative Multimedia in the Service of Behavioural Health Change in Remote Indigenous Settings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest Hunter
Helen Travers
Julie Gibson
Jonathan Campion
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S44-S48
Description
Discusses health disparities between Indigenous and other Australians in both care and innovative technology and how these disparities are being addressed.
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A Brief Analysis of Bill S-11: Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act

Alternate Title
National Environment, Energy and Resource Summit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
M. A. [Marie-Anne] Bowden
Description
Outlines the context in the 15 years prior to the Act in terms of the legal regime, funding, and the roles of the Role of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations and the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. Followed by discussion of aspects of the Act including regulatory scope, lack of consultation, third party involvement, capacity, and potential for erosion of First Nations constitutional rights.
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Brief Respecting Social Housing in Nunavik

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Makivik Corporation
Description
Report presented to the Standing Committee on Finance concerning pre-budget consultations on the housing crisis and lack of action by Canadian government.
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Bringing Order to Indigenous Primary Health Care Planning and Delivery in Ontario: AHACs and Aboriginal CHCs Response to Patients First: A Proposal to Strengthen Patient-Centred Heath Care in Ontario

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pamela Williamson
Angela Recollet
Gertie Mai Muise
Adrianna Tetley
Description
Includes overview and recommendations for "Patients First": integration of service and equity, timely access to care and seamless access to other services, consistent and accessible home and community care, and stronger links between public and other health services.
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British Columbia Tripartite First Nations Health: Basis for a Framework Agreement on Health Governance

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Health Council
Minister of Health (Canada)
Minister of Health Services (British Columbia)
Minister of Healthy Living and Sport (British Columbia)
Description
Follow-up to the Transformative Change Accord: First Nations Health Plan (TCA: FNHP). Outlines basic commitments and processes needed to develop an administrative structure which would enable First Nations to exercise greater control over the delivery of services.
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Buckland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Conley Stone McAnally
Whispering Wind, vol. 36, no. 4, Issue 254, January-February 2007, pp. 24-25
Description
1913 report on the village from the Superintendent of the N.W. District, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaskan Division. Includes photographs.
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Budget Didn't Meet Raised Expectations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 11, March 2003, p. 1
Description

First Nations leaders contend that the federal government failed to provide funding, as promised, to poverty issues. The issues include contaminated water, black mold, and lack of funding for graduates to pursue post secondary education.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

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Building a Resilient and Prosperous North: Centre for the North Five-Year Compendium Report

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; April 2015
[Publication (Conference Board of Canada) ; 6973]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anja Jeffrey
Adam Fiser
Natalie Brender
Brent Dowdall
Description
Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.
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Building Indigenous Research Capacity: A Personal Perspective

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Yvette Roe
Juli Coffin
Bronwyn Fredericks
Mick Adams
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 33-35
Description
Looks at worldwide research activities showcased at the 4th International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Conference held in Washington State.
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Building Inuit Nunaat: The Inuit Action Plan

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada)
Description
Looks at linkages between issues affecting Inuit and the existence of shared and overlapping responsibilities.
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Building on Our Strengths: Aboriginal Youth Wellness in Canada’s North

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; January 2014
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 14-193]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Siomonn Pulla
Description
Focuses on strategies which balance physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health. Includes three case studies: Winnipeg Aboriginal Sports Achievement Centre North, Makimautiksat Youth Wellness and Empowerment Camp, and Government of the Northwest Territories’ Take a Kid Trapping program.
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Building On Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada

Alternate Title
Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada: [Final Report]
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Final Report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Romanow Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Roy J. Romanow
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Description
Commission provides analysis of medicare issues, recommendations to improve quality, and sustainability of the system. Often referred to as the The Romanow Report.
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