Mortality

Looks at the arguments put forth by Constable Harwig, Constable Senger and the Saskatoon Police Association to contest the Commissioner's conclusions.

Review of current literature concludes that Australian Indigenous people experience a very great health disadvantage compared to non-Indigenous Australians.

Looks at the various types of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Indigenous Australians, the risk factors for CVD, and the high prevalence.

Provides statistical information examining mortality rates.

Study concludes that distance to treatment centres or ethnicity appear to have no effect on cancer patient survival in northern Finland.

Uses patient data from the US Renal Data System to compare AI/AN population to other racial /ethnic groups to explain survival differences among the groups,

Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM) table uses information from 1991 to 2006 Canadian census mortality and cancer follow-up study.. Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by time frame.

Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM) table uses information from 1991 to 2006 Canadian Census Mortality and Cancer Follow-up Study. Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.

From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by date range.

From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by sex or date range.

Data from the Homicide Survey, which collects police-reported data on the characteristics of all murder incidents, victims and accused persons. Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.

Data from the Homicide Survey, which collects police-reported data on the characteristics of all murder incidents, victims and accused persons. Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.

Discusses the health disparities in Canada and approaches to improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal people.

Identifies published, peer-reviewed health education or outreach initiatives.

Public Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2010.

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

Novel tells the story of the nineteen-year-old Cree girl from Norway House Cree Nation who was murdered near The Pas, Manitoba on November 13, 1971. Recommended for use with students Grade 10 or above.

Post screening evaluations revealed that the culturally sensitive approach was successful in raising awareness.

Statistics show that the Aboriginal population is significantly younger and growing more rapidly than the general population of the United States. Statistics also show that it is a population significantly poorer and more at risk in terms of accidents, suicides, homicides, and deaths linked to alcoholism.

A gap in mortality outcomes between predominately Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities suggests a need for improvements in perinatal and neonatal health for Aboriginal populations.

Project studied a remote area of New South Wales, Australia which had death rates of up to three times the non-Aboriginal population.

Discussion of two plays centered on the murder of Aboriginal women: Annie Mae’s Movement by Yvette Nolan, and The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements.

Book review of: A Time of Little Choice by Randall Milliken.

Looks at contributory factor to higher respiratory and cardiovascular death rates for Aboriginals with a smoking rate of 54% compared to 29% for the general Australian population.

Reports on Pae Herenga pilot study undertaken to explore how care customs contribute towards strengthening extended family (whānau) resilience and bereavement. Results indicate a need for further study, wider understanding of whānau practices among health professionals, and a digital resource centre.

Contains links to brochures for patients, families, caregivers, and communities, and accompanying package of reference materials. Information based on input gathered in a series of focus groups and interviews held across Ontario in 2013 and 2014.

Concludes that Nunavummiut desire a range of prevention services, from community initiatives focused on primary prevention through to professional care for people at higher risk.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Utah State University, 1998.

Provides context for non-Aboriginal heath workers on how Aboriginal clients process death emotionally.

Conference participants collectively formulated a research and program policy agenda for addressing the disproportionately high rates of suicide in Native North American communities.

Study attempt to find relationship between diet and mortality but findings were inconclusive. More study is recommended.

Three descriptions of an epidemic that decimated an entire Inuit village within days.

Agreement between Aboriginal leaders, federal and provincial governments signed November, 2005. Goals included extending life expectancy, reducing suicide, diabetes and infant mortality.

Explains suicide as the cause of death for one third of Aboriginal youth. Prime Minister Harper suggests that economic development could fix the problem, but the author contends that the issue is too deep rooted for such a quick fix.

Discusses the sudden ecological, economic, and political changes in the Canadian west that caused an explosion of tuberculosis infections among First Nations communities.

Examines data from areas served by Indian Health Services.

Discusses the high mortality rates and lack of previous exposure among the Aboriginal population.

Examines the death registers from the Office of Indian Affairs, and the higher crude death rates, which were the highest rates compared to entire population of USA.

Population Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.

Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel. Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer. Scroll down to page 113 to read chapter.

Discusses how many adults died and were buried without their family's knowledge. Duration: 8:00.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001.

Study seeks to understand how diabetes is understood and treated in Indigenous settings in rural Yucatán.

Argues that an integrated approach, incorporating both deprivation (influences external to the individual) and importation (internal to the individual) theory, is necessary when analyzing risk factors for suicide in the inmates.

Findings from investigation of one child's death at the hands of another. The children were under the supervision of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services and the Yorkton Tribal Council Child and Family Services, respectively. Ministry of Social Services' Response. Update.