Findings highlight the importance of implementing workforce development strategies that focus on achieving culturally appropriate, equitable and supportive organizational conditions for Indigenous drug workers.

Statistics for: low birthweight, pre-term births, infant mortality, births to teenage mothers, and disease and injury premature mortality. Related material: The Health and Well-being of the Aboriginal Population: Interim Update [2012]. First Nations Health and Well-being: Interim Update [2015].

Reports from British Columbia's five regional health authorities.

Looks at risk behaviors such as tobacco use, diet and physical inactivity by surveying communities and using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System conducted by state health departments and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Study examines participation in Family Wellness Warriors Initiative (FWWI) and whether it changes how Indigenous Alaskans use healthcare services. FWWI participants showed a 36% reduction in total system visits, a 70% reduction in substance use visits, and a 40% reduction in emergency department visits.

Nursing Thesis (D.N.Sc.)--Rush University, 1993.

Uses data to describe variations in health experienced by diverse Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

Results from feedback about changing health outcomes and priorities and ideas about using innovation and technology to promote fixes for health disparities.

Looks at issues facing youth such as overcrowding in homes, education, unemployment, and alcohol. Provides interim and long term solutions.

Describes the impact of hearing loss on one young man which contributed to a tragic loss of life.

Examines health risks, health status and health services use utilizing comprehensive population-level health data. Primary source is the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.

Study involved over 1146 individuals over the age of 58 from 16 communities.

Includes statistics on health status and behaviour, emotional well-being, use of services, etc.

Data from First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey (FNRLHS).

Section three looks at Aboriginal health policy covering priority areas, programs and services, First Nations and territorial transfers, mandates and health gaps. Scroll down to page 7 for relevant materials.

Looks at community-based participatory research as an approach to addressing the health disparities facing Canada's Aboriginal children and youth.

Looks at two possible explanations for health care disparities among Australian populations.

Looks at key determinants and health indicators affecting the Aboriginal people in Ontario in order to develop programs and services.

Program developed for health and alcohol workers in southern Australia to help form separate specialized work units. Core units include personal development, administration, community development and Aboriginal politics.

Summary of results and findings. Sample consisted of 712 adults, 566 youth and 666 children.

Offers an example of a client's emotional experiences of a rupture with the relationship with the therapist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.

Discusses a wellness curriculum for urban Native American youth aged 9-13.

Discusses the Healthy Nations Initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which focuses on early prevention, intervention, pubic awareness and cultural values.

Looks at The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship (HNCF) program which is a mentorship and leadership program that is strengths based.

A video of six gas-sniffing teens screaming they want to die. Includes synopsis. Duration: 2:14.

Book review of: Heavy Metal by Maggie Brady. Review located by scrolling to page 174.

Book review of: Heavy Metal by Maggie Brady.

[English and American Studies?] Thesis--[Masarykovy Univerzity, 2009?]

Takes the reader through a step by step process for uncovering the alcoholic's denial and affecting a cure.

Examines the Saskatchewan-based Cartier Farms program which worked with the White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Program at Sturgeon Lake First Nation.

Case study involving the Saskatchewan-based Cartier Equine Learning Center and the White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre program located on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation.

Goals of study were to differentiate diagnoses of infection, determine the comprehensiveness of patient assessment and treatment, and identify patient care in need of improvement.

Article uses data from the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to investigate a rise in Hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in pregnant women. Advocates for screening and prevention education in communities with especially high rates of infection.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Methodist University, 2011.

Attributes high cadmium levels found in Inuit to smoking rather than consumption of liver and kidneys of caribou and sea mammals.

Talks about the connection between alcohol use, overweight, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Cohort composed of 529 individuals residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Found that Aboriginal participants were more than two times as likely to be infected with disease.

Documentary about the dozens of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls who have disappeared on the stretch of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Focuses on the family of Ramona Lisa Wilson, whose murder remains unsolved after twenty-five years. Duration: 50:10.

Article examines the stories of four deceased Aboriginal women: Victoria Rose Paul, Loretta Saunders, Nora Bernard, and Tanya Jean Brooks. Argues policing, mental health and addiction, and socioeconomic fragility contribute to the vulnerability of Indigenous women and discusses these issues in the context of the Marshal Inquiry, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, and the national calls for reconciliation.

Suggests that the epidemic of alcohol-related problems among many Native North Americans are sought in cultural responses to European arrival, the role of alcohol in frontier society, and colonial and postcolonial policies.

Discusses the linkage between the frontier culture and alcohol abuse, and the higher rates of consumption among Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in Alaska and Northern Canada.

Explains the historical trauma suffered by Native American people and describes some of the symptoms such as depression, low self-esteem and substance abuse problems.

Examines the link between intergenerational trauma and substance abuse; and discusses approaches to incorporate historical trauma theory in the treatment, research and evaluation of unresolved grief.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2011.

Examines several aspects of disease; who is at risk of infection social and psychological characteristics, treatments and care in communities.