Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--Simon Fraser University, 2018.

Looks at family violence prevention and intervention strategies.

International Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.

Study evaluates the impact of an eight week wellness program designed to support Indigenous women’s efforts to increase physical activity levels, improve nutrition, and develop support systems for improved health. Results show that program was well-received and has potential for wider implementation.

Argues that women should be rescreened in geographic areas that are experiencing outbreaks, like those affecting Aboriginal communities.

Policy statement discusses the current state of care and outlines the requirements for successful initiatives to return care to communities.

An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.

Focuses on mortality and morbidity.

Reviews findings of previously tested interventions, promising upcoming interventions, and data gaps.

Reviews existing services available for Aboriginal students who are pregnant or parenting, family gathering locations and service programs, and early pregnancy prevention and intervention supports. Offers recommendations for the program.

Looks at the higher risk of poverty for women than men and the even higher risk for First Nations women and visible minority women.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--Queen's University, 1999.

Discusses increased risk factors for women due to an increase in economic development and greater accessibility to the Arctic.

Examines issues effecting the way HIV/AIDS is spread and culturally appropriate ways of addressing the needs of this group.

Individual Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.

Study identifies and compares risk factors for women at two tertiary care hospitals in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

International Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2010.

Lists resources in the areas of justice, health, literature, history, education, politics, etc.

Looks at the colonization of Indigenous childbirth and the possible strategies to address the impact of that particular historical trauma.

Nursing Thesis (M.S.N.)--Trinity Western University, 2011.

File contains a presentation by Anne Rochon Ford, Vicki Ann Wagner, Interim Regulatory Council on Midwifery. The two presenters discuss their organization (funded by the province of Ontario), their work with Aboriginal peoples, jurisdictional issues, the loss of the traditional Aboriginal midwife in Aboriginal society, the desire to incorporate new practices with old, and related issues. They also discuss community birthing centres so that midwifes could be both trained and utilized in a culturally appropriate setting.

This file contains a presentation by Linda Pinch focusing on the Westman WomenÂ’s Shelter in Brandon. The shelter provides safe and temporary accommodation to women and their children who have been physically, emotionally or sexually abused. Pinch also discusses the YWCA Residence Program, a halfway house facility serving people on federal and provincial people, and those needing post-mental health and post-addiction treatment.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

Provides background for two-day forum held January 24-25, 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario. Accompanying video.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2008.

Māori and Pacific Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Auckland, 2013.

Examined 58 validation studies of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and concluded that low predictive accuracy with culturally diverse women suggests cultural biase.

Public Health Thesis (Sc.D.)--Boston University, 2002.

Looks at the necessity of screening programs to combat cancer and promotes a documentary film entitled One of the One Percent - The Sandy Ahenakew Story. Article located by scrolling to page 8.

Adult Education and Counseling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2012.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2000.

Study uses digitised parish records from the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University to compare how the season of birth affected the neonatal and stillbirth risk among the Sami and non-Sami in Swedish Sápmi during the nineteenth century.

Keynote presentation to the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand stressed the importance of culturally sensitive medical practices.

Describes the "talkin up" process involved in developing a culturally appropriate strategy to improve the health and well being of Indigenous women.

Offers six recommendations to reduce the inequity in the availability and accessibility of sexual and reproductive services.

Looks at how the criminal law of sexual assault deals with cases of women who are intoxicated.

Looks at services of the Brisbane Sexual Health Clinic and how it is making itself more inviting to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community,

Provides a comprehensive understanding of social factors and environment on HIV risk behaviours among Manitoba women. Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre for Excellence.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2000.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2011.

Outlines a strategy for urban Aboriginal women to develop a resource that can influence their participation within health and social systems.

Looks at results from participatory interviews of Aboriginal women at the Minwaashin Lodge about their health decision making experiences. Results were arranged in a Medicine Wheel framework for presentation and grouped in four themes.

Authors completed a literature review—including the field notes of health researchers—to determine which model of engagement, Sharing Circles or Focus Groups, was more appropriate in Indigenous communities. Research suggests that given the focus on ceremony, relationship building and respect Sharing Circles are more appropriate for Indigenous communities.

Women's Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1999.

Examines the Yurok women's traditional spiritual beliefs and rituals, including scratching sticks.