Mortality

Findings indicated First Nations people were less likely to undergo angiography and experienced worse long-term survival compared to non-First Nations people.

Discusses problems with data gathering using death certificates and the misclassification of race/ethnicity.

Looks at end-of-life care service models and policies, and advance care planning and identifies current needs, disparities, and services available to Indigenous patients.

Evaluates project and looks at the challenges involved in implementing a sustainable a community based injury prevention program.

Looks at the symptoms and severity, perceived causes and healthcare seeking behaviors of AGI in a small Inuit community.

Author discusses their own experience as a kidney donor and with supporting family and community members with Chronic Kidney Disease, and how the experiences helped to shape their feelings about relational research.

Information on palliative care. Contains links to four general videos, print document Coming Full Circle: Planning for Your Care, and series of brief videos created specifically for First Nations peoples arranged under the headings traditions, rituals and spirituality, expectations of care, care for patient and family, talking about illness, emotions and support, and after death and ceremonies.

Information on palliative care. Contains links to four general videos, print document Coming Full Circle: Planning for Your Care, and series of brief videos created specifically for Inuit people arranged under the headings traditions, rituals and spirituality, expectations of care, care for patient and family, talking about illness, emotions and support, and after death and ceremonies.

Information on palliative care. Contains links to four general videos, print document Coming Full Circle: Planning for Your Care, and series of brief videos created specifically for Métis people arranged under the headings traditions, rituals and spirituality, expectations of care, care for patient and family, talking about illness, emotions and support, and after death and ceremonies.

Review of the video Bridges which is set against the backdrop of the Stonechild Inquiry.

Data indicated the Eskasoni Mi'kmaq study group was at a greater risk for diseases and the need for long-term care is increasing. Results have implications for the health care system and health prevention measures that should be targeted for this group.

Used Saskatchewan Ministry of Health data covering the period between 1980 and 2005. Concluded that First Nations people experience higher long-term risks for both contracting the disease and death, and that primary prevention initiatives were needed to delay onset and reverse trends.

Talks about the newly formed social and cultural section of the W.A. Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Looks at the evidence that suggests a low mortality from ischemic heart disease and a high mortality from stroke.

Confirms that a low or high ankle brachial index was associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease mortality.

Looks at regional differences using Indian Health Services and mortality data sets.

Looks at results from the Menzies Mortality Project on adult deaths and the classification system used to present the information to communities.

Argues that the evacuation policy is not based entirely on the wellbeing of the mother and infant but also an attempt to civilize and assimilate First Nations.

Interview includes a story of Maria Littlewolfe's grandfather who died and then returned to life.

Interview includes a description of life on the reserve that describes milking, sheep-shearing and fishing weirs. It also consists of stories about a woman whose husband turned into a lizard; a story of Wisakedjak; and how Thunder Blanket killed his wife and then himself.

Interview includes a story of an evil spirit which caused an epidemic that killed many people. She also tells of the sale of their reserve and the subsequent moves to Sweet Grass Reserve and then to Moosomin Reserve.

Mrs. Carter tells a story of her life. She talks of the traditional way of living; residential schools and tells how she was given her name. During the interview she also relates a tale from her grandfather about the Cree raiding Blackfoot camps.

Describes a program offered at James Cook University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in Queensland, Australia.

Book review of: A Matter of Life and Death edited by Alan Gray. Review located by scrolling to page 141.

Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.

Consists of an interview where he gives accounts of storytelling amongst the Oneida; accounts of the educational system and its abuses.

Discusses statistical evidence revealing that Indigenous men in Australia have shorter life expectancy and poorer general health outcomes than the general population.

Study conducted by assessing records of purchases of staple food from the Hudson's Bay Company and physical examination of 400 individuals for diseases, concluded that malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies existed. Authors concluded characteristics of the "Indian race" such as"shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia" might be attributable to lack of suitable food.

Book review of: Medicine that Walks by Maureen K. Lux.

History (Archival Studies) Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg, 2007.

Discusses experiences, impacts, implications of racism and strategies for change.

Discusses the disproportionate burden of mental illness faced by Indigenous populations across the globe.

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

List based on names taken from monument at Batoche National Historic Park, with further information from Lawrence J. Barkwell of the Manitoba Métis Federation.

Fact sheet summarizes data from the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) on Métis women and disease prevalence, treatment, screening behaviours, and preventive measures.

States that, unlike other drugs, most of the harm from tobacco comes from long term use, not from an overdose.

Two letter comments in response to the article Effects of Racial/Ethnic Misclassification of American Indians and Alaska Natives by P. Stehr-Green.

Critique of a series of six papers about the health of the world's Indigenous peoples, that appeared inThe Lancet, and were authored by its Editor in Chief Richard Horton.

Reports results of a historical review of case files from 1956 to 2014.

Paper's purpose was to make recommendations to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding research for the Missing Children Research project . The project is to consider four questions: how many students died?, what did they die from?, where are they buried?, and who went missing?

Topics include administrative data, media coverage, and results from listening and truth gathering interviews.

Argues that a disproportionate number of deaths is attributable to stereotyping by individual police officers and the systemic racism in policing.

Criminology and Criminal Justice Thesis (Ph.D.)--Griffith University, 2005.

Examines cancer mortality rates in Territory of Guam and gaps in services that Indigenous patients face.

Survey of personnel based on annual reports from 1956-2001.

Data gathered from Eskansoni, a large Mi'kmaq community located on Cape Breton, suggests that health promotion should target respiratory ailments, circulatory disease and diabetic management.

Compares child and youth mortality in areas with a high percentage of the population identifying as First Nations and areas with a low percentage of Aboriginal identity residents.