Dental

Overview revealed that inequalities exist and are on the rise in child and adult populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.

Summary of results from the Adult Inuit Health Survey. Provides an overview of the health status and living conditions.

Summarizes results for adults.

Reports on the the Amaujaq National Centre for Inuit education, health and social development, environment and wildlife, and the Inuit Knowledge Centre.

Summary of results from Quebec portion of the Phase 3 First Nations Regional Health Survey.

Provides information on background of the national survey, recommendations of feasibility study, development Manitoba survey and questionnaire, and presents results of key variables in graphic form.

Statistics for adults, youth and children.

Discusses the philosophy and efforts of Pika Wiya Health Service (PWHS) to emphasize preventative measures in South Australia.

Study concludes that regular dental examinations, as part of routine diabetic care, were more common in rural health programs then urban.

Study conducted by assessing records of purchases of staple food from the Hudson's Bay Company and physical examination of 400 individuals for diseases, concluded that malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies existed. Authors concluded characteristics of the "Indian race" such as"shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia" might be attributable to lack of suitable food.

Scholarship program purposes are to increase the number of Native Hawaiians in health professions and to get them back to serving in communities in need.

Reviews a dental therapist program being offered in the Northwest Territories.

Comments on the success of the initiative including improved quality of care, elimination of travel barriers and increased awareness of oral health.

Former president of the Salish Kootenai College (SKC) discusses the evolution of their healthcare programs.

Study recommends improved medical and dental services, improved food supply, and health and nutrition education for the First Nations in this region.

Reports on data gathered from eight communities: Constance Lake, Lac Seul, Mohawks of Akwessasne, North Caribou Lake, Six Nations of the Grand River, Walpole Island, Webequie, and Wunnumin.

Study confirms the prevalence of dental disease in American Indian population with HIV/AIDS as compared to general population.

Summary of the conference or workshop that was "invitation only" and was attended by community members, researchers and policy-makers from across Canada. The intent of the forum was to develop and improve national collaborations and relationships regarding child oral health.

Compilation of resources about improving oral health in children from various organizations and perspectives. Reports that a shocking number of children still suffer extensive tooth decay in both urban and remote First Nations and Inuit communities.

Study of 100 parents of AI/AN children 71 months or younger attending outpatient paediatric primary care appointments found that the odds of regular child toothbrushing were 49.10 times higher when the parent brushed their own teeth regularly.

Examines socio-demographic and oral health characteristics of children cared for at two difference service points and confirms the social and health inequalities of care.

Smoking and oral-health related behaviours were determined to be the chief factors of poor oral health of First Nations compared to Caucasians.

"The objective of this paper is to summarise epidemiological information about the distribution of dental caries among Indigenous peoples in Brazil".

Looks at oral health inequalities between Aboriginal kindergarten children living on-reserve and those living off-reserve.

Discusses Goal 5 which has the objective to develop and integrate Māori content in the undergraduate course.

Discusses initiatives to prevent Early childhood caries (ECC), including culturally appropriate programs which build on traditional health practices, and highlights the national Aboriginal health and oral surveys.

Presents results of pilot study to develop and test tools for a larger epidemiological study of oral health.

Looks at decay of the primary teeth in infants and pre-school children.

Summary. Infographic.

Bibliography contains over 500 entries on health issues indexed by topic, author, ethnic and language group, or place name.

Statistics from various sources gathered to assist tribes in developing public health programs and priorities.

Dentistry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2001.

Assesses need for orthodontic treatment in elementary schools in Skidegate and Masset.

Compares the degree of improvement after orthodontic treatment between 60 First Nations orthodontic patients to 60 non-First Nations patients.

Data from the 1997 National First Nations and Inuit Regional Health Survey and the British Columbia Focus Group Study.

Interviews caregivers enrolled in the program whose children got preventative care at home (0-2) vs. at school (5-7).

Argues that the prevalence of periodontitis in the Sandy Bay population require community-based dental services.

Describes the process of planning and implementing quality dental service that is culturally sensitive and addresses the needs of the community.

Findings on improving culturally appropriate dental services for Aboriginal children.

Shows the movement from state and professionally controlled health care to Indigenous control over health care.

Community Health Services Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2004.

Study results based on ethnographic case study, discusses factors that led to a lower level of oral health for the residents of Nunavut.

Dental Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Manitoba, 2000.