Cultural Sensitivity

Discussion on Indigenous-specific determinants to addressing health inequalities that exist for Aboriginal peoples and recommendations for developing a framework of determinants for Métis well-being.

Comments on the connection between well-being and diabetes prevention.

Discussion on Native patients' dependency on clinical encounters in the health service system as opposed to use of alternative methods with relation to medical evacuations and southern hospitalizations.

Looks at the determinants of Indigenous health including poverty, violence, and access to health care.

Discusses a theoretical model that looks at the correlation between human health and engagement in social groups.

Study based on information gathered from Oglala Lakota Souix participants from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota found two personal themes and three environmental emerged with regard to tissue donation.

Researchers work with Indigenous patients to record and examine their experience of seeking and receiving care for inflammatory arthritis in an urban Alberta community; make recommendations for improving patient care and patient experience.

Looks at findings from research project using Dadirri methodology on families.

Looks at conference theme, "A United Pathway - The SA (South Australia) Way" which involved examining the future path of the Aboriginal health worker profession in South Australia.

Service manager of the service explains the programming that has been developed after more than two years of consultations with Aboriginal communities along Australia's South Coast.

Review of written works on illness and healing by Native American tribes in the Southern California region.

Public Administration Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

Discusses risks from co-occurring conditions and social and cultural customs contributing to spread of HIV/AIDS and the unique foundation and influence of the project on the development of HIV/AIDS care and treatment.

Public Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Concludes that there is no evidence of altered folate metabolism and it is essential that culturally appropriate public health efforts continue to increase the intake of folic acid to reduce spina bifida.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 2002.

Comments on ways to facilitate teaching and learning in a multicultural setting.

Discusses spiritual health program and collaboration between community agencies, tribes in Arizona and institutions to bring attention to the role of spiritual and cultural understanding in cancer care.

Describes how better care for amputee patients can be provided when patients' spiritual and cultural beliefs are understood by the caregivers.

Explores the various forms of loss suffered by Australian Aboriginals and the impacts on mental health.

An overview of the social work practice and spirituality literature on recent peer-reviewed publications, since 2004, illustrating the current topics, areas, and work being conducted in this field.

Excerpt from The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis and Ellen Bass.

Authors use an intersectional and trauma-informed approach to engage with the consequences of human trafficking for Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people; they then consider resiliency factors, and make culturally informed recommendations to assist psychologists in working with survivors of trafficking.

Dr. Vince Mathews, the head of the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, speaks at a workshop.

Chapter four of series looks at the Tripartite First Nations Health Plan. Duration: 9:57.

Education, Humanities, and Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Eastern Finland, 2017.

Emphasizes the need for a whole health approach which includes screening, contacting patients with positive results, tracing sexual partners, and contacting patients for follow-up.

Examines the mental health disparities of Indigenous people and discusses the need for traditional healing and caretaking practices.

Test study indicated that respondents were receptive to an awareness program and messages on labels.

Stresses the importance of proper nutrition in the diet of Indigenous individuals living in remote Australian communities.

Describes experiences leading up to and including work as a Health Assistant in the Aboriginal Health program which concentrates on preventative medicine.

Outlines prevention and support for Aboriginal communities impacted by HIV in Ontario.

Recommendations are based on primary, secondary and tertiary public health methods.

Six month research project presents two check lists of actions to support the advancement of Indigenous health managers to middle and senior management in the Queensland (Australia) health sector.

Peace and Conflict Studies (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2019.

Argues that the interdisciplinary team approach is the ideal way for essential services to be delivered to northern communities and offers ways to achieve more effective collaboration.

Looks at the Sts’ailes Primary Health Care Project, a participatory community-academic research partnership, that provides programs and services to identify and meet the primary health care and wellness needs of the Aboriginal clients who reside in the region.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact sheet #10 looks at knowledge of HIV/AIDS using the AIDS Knowledge Scale.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact sheet #5 looks at definition of invisible from perspective of service providers and from youth perspective.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Table of contents for Phase I, Fact Sheets 1-11, Phase II, Fact Sheets 1-5 and Executive summaries.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal was to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact sheet # 11 includes comments from five female elders and two male elders, all married with children.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact sheet #4 provides participants' use of health care services.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact Sheet #7 comments on environmental, professional and access barriers.

Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs. Fact sheet #8 reveals that focus group participants felt that issues of convenience, safety, trust and "feeling comfortable" were most important.