Comments on the potential for legal action against various health care providers.

Author examines the barriers to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students being admitted to medical schools. Recommends implementing active outreach and programming to close the educations gap.

Discusses the introduction to Western Medicine in communities by students learning about public health and sanitation in the boarding schools.

Reports on the history of health care practices at the facility and the effects on the health of students and staff.

Examines the holistic and spiritual concepts of health among Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia as opposed to western medicine's linear approach.

Book review of Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes.

Looks at three objectives of Medicine Wheel approach: making the life of a physician easier, providing patients a framework to identify and deal with the cause for their symptoms, and improving the quality of treatment.

Memorandum to improve access, quality and efficiency of healthcare through e-health initiatives.

Reports on men's health workshops that have been held throughout Australia to enable Indigenous men to re-establish themselves as positive role models.

Looks at menopause from the perspective of Australian Aboriginal women.

Discusses alternative models of primary health care for dual diagnoses clients.

Review identifies the health inequalities between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals and comments on the efforts that must be made to address these disparities.

Evaluates the Integrated Mental Health Service in Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia and personal experiences as mature student at Curtin University located in Perth, Western Australia.

Focus on Aboriginal perceptions of health, determinants of mental health, and community approaches and strategies to help youth services and agencies be more effective.

Looks at several problems involved with treating mental health within a primary care clinic including physician overload.

Explains the traditional role older women play in the family and community and how that role has changed.

Findings indicate a significant number of adults with mental health problems are unable to access treatment.

Chapter 1 from Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis. Chapter 1 located by scrolling to page 3.

Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.

Lists and describes the many types of health care workers needed to form an effective mental health care team.

Study findings indicate that past health care discrimination was linked to increased preference for traditional health services.

Discusses the review that examines all aspects of mental health programming and services undertaken by FNIHB, Manitoba Region and provides recommendations for change.

Survey at the underlying factors for Aboriginal people re-presenting to the emergency department on numerous occasions within a short time period.

Speaks about American Indian identity and misconceptions. Chapter from: Mental Health Care for Urban Indians: Clinical Insights from Native Practitioners edited by T. Witko.

Looks at the psychological results of social Kava use on thinking, wishing, emotion, perception, consciousness, social psychology, and within cults.

Assessment conducted to determine teams' needs with respect to: capacity. governance, infrastructure, training, networking/community of practice, defining practice-based evidence and evaluation.

Comments the merits of proactive health care versus reactive.

Short essay commenting on governmental priorities and progress made in self-management of Aboriginals affairs.

Looks at improving race classification data and analyzing deaths by region in order to plan programs for reducing health disparities.

Examines those communities that succeed, or fail, in getting their environmental health problems addressed.

Looks at cancer control practices and models of care based on environmental scans from 2012.

Comments on unique aspects of the research study, Building Healthy Mi'kmaq Communities in Prince Edward Island, which focused on the determinants of health, with education considered a strong social determinant.

Authors describe Micro-Reconciliation as “a pervasive and transformative moral refashioning of everyday interpersonal interactions between First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Canada’s settler population.” They stress the need for micro-level changes in day-to-day operations to be linked to overall structural reform if they are to be sustainable.

Medical records of 610 children born between 1994 and 2010 in 3 communities were reviewed and analyzed to determine if (i) early onset Otitis Media (OM) leads to repeated OM; (ii) repeated OM episodes leads to middle ear abnormalities (MEA) at age 5 years, (iii) pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) may reduce multiple OM and MEA.

Instruction on how to use an otoscope and a pneumatic otoscope for examining the ear canal and ear drum. Includes pictures. Part 2.

Discuses the use of antibiotics in treating middle ear disease and health worker role in educating the community on the drugs use and importance on following instructions. Part 1.

Discusses the need for maternity care services in Aboriginal communities including the recruitment of Aboriginal women into the profession of midwifery.

Shows practices, organizations, and education programs by province/territory.

Reports Aboriginal health workers should receive training in antenatal care as well the female anatomy and sociology, the menstrual cycle, conception and diagnosis of pregnancy.

Discusses traditional practices, medicalization of childbirth, including evacuation of women, and current and future status of midwifery. Includes results of literature search and key informant interviews.

Relates experiences of an Aboriginal health worker while a participant in an inservice training program on a labour ward.

Looks at the Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Training Program and recent graduates.

Describes an initiative in the Moose Cree First Nation community which focused on the Cree philosophy milo pimatisiwin (good and healthy living). Discusses program elements which included land-based initiatives, sharing teachings over the local radio, and feedback from youth.

Looks at integrating traditional healing practices such as the medicine wheel, burning tobacco, story- telling and the sweat lodge into contemporary psychotherapy and counselling.

Looks at programs and practices from eight regions.

Assessment of Native Men's Residence (Na-Me-Res), a Housing First initiative for Indigenous men who are experiencing homelessness and dealing with mental health challenges and/or substance use. Uses both quantitative (client administrative data) and qualitative (focus groups and key informant interviews) sources to evaluate the program delivery model and the Indigenous approach to providing culturally safe, relevant, and sustainable supports and services.