Mortality

Compares mortality patterns between Alaskan Native and Non-Native population between 1989 to 1998 and trends for period between 1979-1998. Uses data from the Indian Health Service and 1990 Census.

Statistics for: apparent accidental poisoning deaths (fentanyl & non-fentanyl opioids); demographics and recent medical history of decedents; confirmed drug and alcohol poisoning deaths; dispensing data; opioid agonist therapy (OAT); emergency department visits; hospitalizations; and emergency medical response. Includes data for 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Looks at differences in alcohol-related mortality rates and patterns of alcohol use in the American Indian and Alaska Native populations

Contends that alcohol related incidents destroy Aboriginal youth at an alarming rate.

Statistics indicated deaths were higher in villages with no local alcohol restrictions.

Comments on a study that concludes higher rates of mortality are found in Aboriginal Canadians after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) compared to non-Aboriginals.

Final report.

Originally published 2008, this revised edition published December, 2009.

Reviews healthcare challenges and policies for American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Looks at cancer prevention through to end-of-life care.

Discusses health disparities, the need for outreach and how to create an outreach plan.

Looks at leading causes of infant death.

A census based study on role and extent assimilationist policies played in mortality rates of Native American children. Originally presented at Conference on Vulnerable Populations in Paris, July, 2005.

Geography and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)-- Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2005.

Part 1 provides epidemiologic profile of research and surveillance on water-related unintentional injury deaths during 1991-2010 gathered from annual structured reviews of mandatory coroner and police reports for all water-related deaths. Part 2 makes recommendations for drowning prevention from review of national and international research, programmes, and initiatives.

Article in French, abstract in French and English. Argues that the Innu perception of what constitutes suicide differs from the "Western" definition and that data reporting should be reconsidered in light of this discrepancy.

The interview includes the story of a Cree boy who becomes a Blackfoot Chief.

Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.

Interview includes stories of attacks on women by Blackfoot and Cree raiders. It also includes the story of the acquisition of the Sioux Dance (or Grass Dance) from the bone grass spirits.

Interview includes the stories of a raid on the Blackfoot and the struggle for supremacy between two medicine men. (Transcribed by J. Greenwood)

Lists type of process (commission, inquiry, inquest), report title, catalyst, purpose, recommendations, etc. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Highlights five court cases involving violence against Aboriginals: Doe v Metropolitan Toronto(Municipality) Commissioners of Police, Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, Hill v Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, Thompson v Webber, and Patrong v Wayne Banks and Others. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Guide is intended for social workers and care givers.

Describes the disparities of arthritis among Aboriginal people in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut compared to populations in the South.

Identifies higher rate of advanced-stage disease found for screenable cancers and negative attitudes towards cancer treatments.

Criteria for articles included in literature review: rigorous association between a social determinant and selected disease outcome; either published in English or translated; and published in 2011. Search yielded 30 results.

Examines influences on systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

Reports the results from a study that suggests albuminuria is a strong independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in American Indians with diabetes.

Contends that macrosomic infants of First Nations women have an elevated risk of postneonatal deaths.

Study concludes that there is a link between Sami ethnicity and allergy and asthma among northern Norwegian school children.

Epidemiology and Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 1981.

Longitudinal analysis compares statistics for First Nations adults to those for non-Aboriginals. Uses data from the 1991-2005 Canadian Census Mortality and Cancer Follow-up Study.

Explores themes of homosexuality, Aboriginal identity, and death in the poet's works.

Revised edition 1991.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University (Canada), 1996.

Discusses the high rates of preterm birth, stillbirth and infant death in Inuit-inhabited areas of Canada compared with the rest of the country and the interventions necessary to improve maternal and infant health.

Liberal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Dartmouth College, 2013.