Health Care Practices

Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2002.

Looks at the criteria for universal health care and discusses eligibility.

Provides background on the nature of the initiative as well as the historical, political and cultural context of health care delivery.

Outlines the different types of services which fall under the spectrum of continuing care and offers advice to communities wishing to provide services. Topics include performing a needs assessment, funding sources, building a business case, contract process, quality, safety and licensing requirements, and building design. Gives examples of leading practices.

Provides brief overview of care practices in Canada, circumpolar countries, and Nunavut and reports results of needs assessment conducted.

Study to determine if the inequalities that exist between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples affect the care, control, and complications of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Study concludes that clinical primary care approaches are more reactive than preventive.

[Nursing] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, 2011.

Discussion on ways to improve diabetes care in remote aboriginal communities.

Questions the improvements to Aboriginal health, independence and equity over the past twenty years.

Explores community members perspectives on video conferencing as a way to deliver mental health services and discusses advantages and disadvantages.

Looks at the alcohol problem and healthcare system in small Australian community.

Study analyzes the costs of two hypothetical screening methods.

Analysis of the financial First Nations health expenditures and the Federal government shifting cost to the provincial governments.

Concludes that infant bronchiolitis represents a significant burden on the territorial health care system.

Looks at council established to foster a better relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to help improve their health, housing and employment situation.

Gives examples of basic counseling skills needed by health workers in order to counsel people in remote communities.

Health worker studying for the Associate Diploma in Health Science talks about the traditional way of counseling.

Discusses the kinds of family counseling services provided: viewing a body and identification, postmortems, inquests and resulting information, guidance through the inquest, information about rights, and short, medium and long-term counseling.

Description and evaluation of the counsellor program.

Looks at counselors' values and how these values may affect the counseling process.

Essays by scholars, practitioners and learners written with an emphasis on the relational and wholistic nature of Indigenous health discuss how the pandemic has affected individuals and communities.

"43rd PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION"

Duration: 1:28:50.

For Indigenous content see chapters 10, 11, and 12.

Examines a range of scenarios for disease transmission, case finding, quarantine, testing and community lockdown. Related material: Impact of COVID-19 in Remote and Regional Settings:Theoretical Modelling of How the Health System Can Respond

Developed to encourage Elders and their caregivers to ask health care providers about medications they are taking.

Discussion of a prenatal care workshop, held in British Columbia, and the dialogue on ways of improving prenatal care.

Book review of: Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy by John Richards.

Discusses the human right and legal issues related to privacy, confidentiality, and the disclosure of health information for Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS.

Study look at social determinants that influence breastfeeding in Tlicho mothers in remote locations.

Chronicles the progress of the BC Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environment (ACADRE) in building research capacity by partnering with Aboriginal organizations and communities.

Focuses on contemporary women artists and writers and how their artistic creations have played a role in the healing process for themselves and others.

Looks at the difficulty to design, implement, and fund a healing program.

Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.

Elders discuss a variety of matters relating to Indian culture and traditions and what can be done to retain or regain these. Most topics are touched on only briefly

Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.

Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.

Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.

Shows that Interdisciplinary Health Research Team (IHRT) research goals are positive and contributing to knowledge on nutrition of the Moose Factory community.

Copy of Appendix 1 of Choosing Life: Special Report on Suicide Among Aboriginal People. Concerns identified in report apply to Australian Aboriginal suicide.

Looks at usability testing for a shared decision making (SDM) tool, the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide (OPDG) for use between the client and health care provider with Aboriginal women at the Minwaashin Lodge.

Examines personal variables and situational demands and how these play a role in the coping process of suicide.

Study showed that interpreters must act as both translators and cultural mediators in order for patients to be satisfied with their medical care.