Stresses importance of putting more resources into prevention efforts as opposed to focusing only on treatment.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2011.

Looks at the development of suicidal behaviour and effective ways of reducing deaths. Includes recommendations for a prevention strategy.

Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.

Study compares hemodialysis care in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients in Canada.

Looks at important areas that will improve the coordination of food and nutritional activities in communities.

Provides student review of program.

Discusses the two day educator training program for the Northern Territory's Alcohol and Drug Program.

Looks at an ethnographic study that examines issues surrounding health care access for Aboriginal people in an urban center.

Discusses resistance strategies used by paid and unpaid social workers.

Focuses on how race-related genetic classifications are constructed and hints at possible consequences for minority groups. Chapter 6 from: Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk, And Digital Discrimination edited by David Lyon. Scroll down to access this chapter.

Assess the extent to which injury rates among American Indians in Oregon are underestimated owing to misclassification of race in a surveillance system.

Study of 27 participants shows racism continues to have an impact on their social and emotional wellbeing.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2011.

Presents findings from Indigenous participants in the Early Childhood Service System Project.

Looks at the training of Aboriginal doctors at the University of Newcastle.

Looks at the impact and cultural appropriateness of program concluding with decreased rates of behaviour problems and dysfunctional parenting practices.

Participating communities were in the Campbelltown, Cranebrook and LIthgow areas of New South Wales, Australia.

Article summarizes the results of the mixed-methods research conducted in Kettle & Stoney Plain First Nation that focused on the mental health needs of Indigenous Men. Research examines the factors that contribute to mental health issues, the experience of men seeking supports and services, and identifies ways to address mental health in this community.

Discusses the development of eHealth research agenda initiatives including the knowledge gaps which impede adoption in rural Aboriginal communities in Canada.

Discusses working with Aboriginal clients who were removed from their families as babies and young children.

Discusses the social disparity factors that contribute to poorer health outcomes for Indigenous Australian children.

Interviews First Nations paraprofessional health workers in two northern Ontario communities and looks at proposed national competency-based standards for education, certification, and regulation.

Looks at interdisciplinary health care teams, paraprofessionals recruited locally to fill service gaps in Aboriginal communities, and health science education programs to address cultural differences.

Discusses birthing procedures introduced to the Northwest Territories in 1982 and how the government is now incorporating traditional Aboriginal knowledge into its mandate.

Comments on video dealing with Aboriginal community members, Aboriginal health workers and non-Aboriginal health workers views on the lack of health services use by Aboriginal people.

Looks at the Mental Health Services Act and challenges involved in getting funding for cultural intervention programming.

Findings from focus groups showed experiences of homophobic oppression, racism, stigma, and inadequate access to health care.

Comments that awareness training can be achieved through strategic policy direction, educational partnerships and accountabilities to the Indigenous community.

Brief article reports on the 9 recommendations and resolutions that arose from the Council of Remote Area Nurse of Australia Inc (CRANA) conference held in Alice Springs, Central Australia.

Offers ten recommendations to the government for Aboriginal mental health training.

Article compares the health determinants set out by the Public Health Agency of Canada with traditional knowledge systems of First Nations people.

Authors note that the current drug overdose crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous people as a result of a legacy of colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma; argue that reconciliation with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples must include dismantling structural conditions which produce drug-related harms, and that current harm-reduction models must integrate Indigenous cultural values.

Article asserts a holistic approach that addresses intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical needs of the child.

Discusses a story told by an older Gros Ventre woman in 1901 to an anthropologist about an intertribal battle and her escape and American Indian historical trauma.

Reports results of experimental treatments which took place at the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont.

Explores problems some Aboriginal communities have recruiting and retaining health care professionals.

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Provides an overview of the issues with a focus on injection drug users, young people, women, and factors of incarceration. Gives strategies to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Looks at program which integrates cultural traditions into therapeutic counseling at a healing lodge located on an Algonquian First Nations reserve.