Infectious Diseases

Describes the two stages taken in an effort to control the spread of rheumatic fever in Queensland, Australia.

Discusses what rheumatic fever is, the causes and prevention.

Five-year retrospective study of the incidence and clinical presentation of acute rheumatic fever.

Results of a study on the social, economic, and behavioural factors related to drug use among Aboriginal people as compared to non-Aboriginal people.

The interview is an account of Ron J. Camponi's life.

Interview includes a general account of Rose Bertha Fleury's life.

File contains an individual presentation by Ken Ward, an Aboriginal man from Enoch First Nations who is living with AIDS. He asks how can Aboriginals have a strong economic base "when these employed people are hurting." He calls for an after care program for Aboriginals leaving the correctional system, which includes elders.

Suggests a correlation between the use of alcohol and tobacco and reduced immunity to diseases.

Statistics on demographics, opioid overdose, immunization, communicable disease, social determinants of health, and diabetes,

Looks at the causes, treatment, and prevention of a disease that disproportionately affects Indigenous communities in Canada.

Uses example of schools in British Columbia to illustrate that while children's health education was used as a method of assimilation, children were undernourished and conditions were unsanitary encouraging the spread of disease.

World Health Organization announced Indigenous populations at high risk of being infected with H1N1 virus given clinical evidence to date.

Study involved 90 participants and includes a questionnaire on food habits and environmental factors, and a venous blood sample. Findings indicate that only echinococcosis and trichinellosis appeared to be in Yakutia as health threats among the 3 investigated zoonoses.

Related material: Part 2: Sexuality and Relationships.

Findings indicate the two communities had networks that were similar in both size and structure. Locating information in a publicly funded system made for easier patient follow-up.

Discusses resource developed to aid health workers improve nutrition and general health in Aboriginal communities experiencing childhood malnutrition and recurrent infectious diseases and high rates of diabetes and heart disease in adults.

Compares incidence and hospitalization rates for shigetlosis between Indians and the rest of the population in Manitoba, and also examines the relationship between shigellosis and environmental conditions on reserves.

Consists of an interview with three of Jim Brady's sisters. They talk about early life in St. Paul des Metis in the 1920s and 1930s, the politics and lifestyle of their father, Jim Brady, Sr., as well as discussing Brady's maternal grandfather, Laurent Garneau.

Looks at common childhood skin disorders.

Study aimed at determining the prevalence of group A streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus in an urban setting.

Discussion of potential interactions among co-circulating pathogens and how the social, historical and economical factors lead to excessive mortality.

General reminiscences of his life and he talks about a smallpox epidemic before he was born.

Identifies gaps in public health knowledge and emerging priorities and initiatives needed to improve Aboriginal health.

Proposes a three-step approach to improvement of the effective coverage of essential interventions.

Study findings indicate that the increase in prescribing of antimicrobials corresponded with increased resistance and points to the need to prescribe only when necessary.

[History] Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University, 2013.

Book review of: The Subarctic Indians and the Fur Trade 1680-1860 by J. C. Yerbury. Scroll down to page 86 to read review.

Identifies lack of trust, lack of feedback on surveillance and gaps in coordination of activities as effecting participation in monitoring diseases.

This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.

Book review of: The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion by Barbara Alice Mann.

Provides treatment information regarding scabies infestations.

Prescribes treatment therapies for various common ailments of children for primary health workers in Australia.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1994.

Discussion of a syphillus outbreak in British Columbia that occurred between 1977 and 1999.

Related Material: Te Ohonga Ake: The Health Status of Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand: Series Two.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2014.

Recorded oral histories of Fort Resolution.

Article contains a bi-cultural version of how a parasite can be introduced to a person.

Explores the idea that infectious diseases were present in the Americas before European contact.

Describes outbreak of gastroenteritis among visitors to a central Australian Aboriginal community.

Promotes a strong environmental health program to help control and eradicate blindness in the Aboriginal communities.