Mortality
The Uluit: Champions of the North [Episode 1, Sisters]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Arnait Video Productions
Madeline Ivalu
Susan Avingaq
Ari A. Cohen
Kathryn Delaney
Paul Rikard
Description
Series follows the lives of members of an Inuit women's hockey team from Inukjuak, Nunavik over the period of a year.
Episode 2: Mothers and Babies.
Episode 3: Modern Times.
Episode 4: I Am Young, I Am Proud.
Episode 5: The Great Whale Cup.
Under-treatment, Over-treatment, and Coerced into Treatment: Identifying and Documenting Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Yvonne Boyer
Aboriginal Policy Studies , vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 190-193
Description
Looks at the reports Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women and Out of Sight: A Summary of the Events Leading Up to Brian Sinclair's Death and the Inquest That Examined It and the Interim Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair working Group.
Underestimation of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality among Maine American Indians: The Role of Procedural and Data Errors
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith M. Graber
Brenda E. Corkum
Nancy Sonnenfeld
Paul L. Kuehnert
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 827-830
Description
Evaluates racial coding on death certificates and the effects of coding errors on estimation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality.
Understanding Death and Dying in Select First Nations Communities in Northern Manitoba: Issues of Culture and Remote Service Delivery in Palliative Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth E. Hotson
Sharon M. Macdonald
Bruce D. Martin
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, no. 1, 2004, pp. 25-38
Description
Concludes that providing home based palliative care in remote Aboriginal communities can be an effective way of addressing the medical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients.
Understanding Inequalities in Access to Health Care Services for Aboriginal People: A Call for Nursing Action
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Cameron
Maria del Pilar Carmargo Plazas
Anna Santos Salas
Lisa Bourque Bearskin
Krista Hungler
Advances in Nursing Science, vol. 37, no. 3, July/September 2014, pp. E1-E16
Description
Comments on the urgent need to enhance the delivery of culturally appropriate practices in emergency health care for Aboriginal people.
Unintentional Injuries Among Children and Adolescents in Aboriginal and Non-aboriginal communities, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reza Alaghehbandan
Khokan C. Sikdar
Don MacDonald
Kayla D. Collins
Annette M. Rossignol
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 1, 2010, pp. 61-71
Description
Contends that a higher rate of hospitalization and mortality occurs in Aboriginal communities compared to non-Aboriginal communities in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Unintentional Injury Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1990-2009
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tierney Murphy
Pallavi Pokhrel
Anne Worthington
Holly Billie
Mack Sewell ... [et al.]
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S470-S480
Description
Shows there is an alarming increase in unintentional deaths from poisoning.
Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Annett
Louie Lawless
Description
Full version (1 hr. 48 min.) of documentary about abuse at residential schools which won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Best Director for an International Documentary at the New York International Film Festival.
Based on Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.
Update of Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in Queensland
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 25-26
Description
Describes program and plots future directions for further health worker training opportunities in order to provide optimal care.
Update On The Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susan Sayers
Dorothy Mackerras
Gurmeet Singh
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 6-8
Description
Describes a long term study from 1987 that looked at the impacts of maternal health and birth size on childhood growth, nutrition, morbidity and chronic disease risk factors.
Upstream Suicide Prevention Methodology for Schools Through the Hidden Power of Social Networks
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tim Andersen
Description
Author comments on attending 3 learning experiences in North America and the information he gained from each one.
"A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust funded learning experience to Canada and the United States, June 2015".
Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: Youth Risk Behavior Survey 1997-2003
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shira Rutman
Alice Park
Mei Castor
Maile Taualii
Ralph Forquera
Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 12, Supplement, July 2008, pp. [S76]-S81
Description
Survey results show a higher prevalence of heath-risk behaviors in urban American Indian and Alaska Native youth compared to other youth.
Urban Living is Not Associated with Better Birth and Infant Outcomes among Inuit and First Nations in Quebec
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fabienne Simonet
Russell Wilkins
Maureen Heaman
Janet Smylie
Patricia Martens
et al.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 25-31
Description
Looks at the differences in rural versus urban birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Quebec.
Use and Outcomes of Peritoneal Dialysis among Aboriginal People in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcello Tonelli
Brenda Hemmelgarn
Braden Manns
Sara Davison
Clara Bohm ... [et al.]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 16, no. 2, February 2005, pp. 482-488
Description
Study examined rates of peritoneal dialysis (PD) use, technique failure, and mortality of Aboriginal dialysis patients and compared results with non-Aboriginals.
Verdict of Coroner's Jury, Office of the Chief Coroner: The Coroners Act - Province of Ontario: [Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Paul Panacheese, Robyn Harper, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, Jordan Wasasse]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Eden
Description
Jury recommendations resulting from inquest into the deaths of seven youths from remote communities attending school in Thunder Bay.
Verdict Explanation.
"A Very Serious and Perplexing Epidemic of Grippe": The Influenza of 1918 at the Haskell Institute
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mikaëla M. Adams
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [1]-35
Description
An examination of a Spanish flu epidemic at the federal Indian boarding school in Lawrence Kansas, its impact on the students and the response of school officials.
Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study: Patterns, Trends and Disparities in Mortality Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Infants and Children, 1999-2008: Summary Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane Freemantle
Rebecca Ritte
Kristen Smith
Dulce Iskandar
Tess Cutler ... [et al.]
Description
Research has initiated high-quality information describing the health of Victorian Aboriginal infants and children and more accurate information on births and deaths of Aboriginal infants and children.
Violent Victimization and Perceptions of Safety: Experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Loanna Heidinger
Juristat, vol. [42], no. [1], April 26, 2022
Description
Most current self-reported data on lifetime (since age 15) prevalence of violent victimization and the prevalence of violent victimization in the past 12 months. Sources included the 2018 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (SSPPS), 2019 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization), and five years (2015 to 2020) of data from the Homicide Survey.
A Vital Statistics System for Determining Births and Mortality in the First Nations Population of British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. David Martin
Soo-Hong Uh
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 61, no. 2, 2002, pp. 92-97
Description
Researchers pointed out the need to use three sources of data to reasonably ensure complete counting of all cases.
What is Important in the Surroundings in Order to Extend the Healthy Life Period? A Regional Study of 19 Older Women in a Northern Part of Norway
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gunn-Tove Minde
Torill M. Sæterstrand
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2, p. article no. 21189
Description
Study of 19 women aged 75 or older revealed that in the Sami culture elderly people feel that it is important to be "strong" and "healthy".
What's Killing Our Children? Child and Infant Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Alternate Title
NAM Perspectives ; March 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Teshia G. Arambula Solomon
Felina M. Cordova
Francisco Garcia
Description
Presents information on negative social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting the mother and child.
[What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-12: Appendixes B-D]
Alternate Title
Summary of Research and Evaluation Register Items
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Closing the Gap Clearinghouse]
Description
Appendixes to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-2012.
Where Are the Children Buried?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Scott Hamilton
Description
General overview of historical context along with examples of specific schools for illustrative purposes and 'gap analysis' to recommend areas where further research is required. Second part of report is a more detailed summary of information on each school’s location and construction sequence, duration of operation, and reported cemeteries.
Why Did Charlie Wenjack Die?
Alternate Title
The Poverty Wall
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ian Adams
Description
Story of a twelve-year-old boy who perished from exposure and starvation while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario.
Chapter two from The Poverty Wall by the same author.
Wilfred & Harriet Chocan Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Wilfred Chocan
Harriet Chocan
Mary Mountain
Iris Baker
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview with Wilfred and Harriet Chocan about the joys and challenges in their lives from childbirth to caring for the elderly and death.
Working Together to Address Suicide in First Nations Communities: A Select Illustration of Collaborative, Community-Based, Suicide Prevention Projects
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations
Description
"It highlights examples of thriving collaborative, community-based, suicide prevention projects that are funded through the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NAYSPS)." Examples used: Prince Albert Grand Council, Kenora Chiefs Advisory, Gitxsan Health Society and File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council.