Looks at the broad spectrum of health and social determinants to come up with solutions that will improve the health and well being of Aboriginal people, including a holistic approach to be utilized when dealing with Aboriginal health issues.

Public Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2012.

Looks at health disparities and social determinants of health and provides recommendations for change.

Findings indicate that socio-economic disparities are a contributing factor to the elevated rates of tuberculosis (TB).

Scoping review of literature on Aboriginal health, rights, and health policy highlights issues including the impact of ongoing colonialism, the role of government in rights realization, tokenism, and policies of assimilation. Notes an ongoing failure to move from rights recognition to implementation.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2010.

Discussion on Indigenous-specific determinants to addressing health inequalities that exist for Aboriginal peoples and recommendations for developing a framework of determinants for Métis well-being.

Outlines goals and actions in the areas of capacity and commitment, partnerships, social enterprise development, and evaluation and analysis.

Family Ecology and Practice Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2013.

Toolkit provides resources to start the process of rebuilding economies.

Looks at how social enterprise applied to tourism can offer Indigenous peoples opportunities to develop their economic potential and to become self-sufficient communities.

Concludes that Aboriginal people in the United States live in an adverse and violent environment that places them at higher risk for exposure to traumatic experiences.

Links high STI rates in the aboriginal population to exclusionary structures and norms in Canadian society.

Challenges the fact that communication or solicitation for the purpose of sex, otherwise known as prostitution, is illegal and yet is so open, with 14 escort agencies listed in Saskatoon and 17 in Regina.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, 2002.

Study generally supports Gerhard Lenski's theory of social stratification with the exception of power differences or inequalities emerging before the inequalities of wealth.

Discusses the health & socio-economic factors effecting the well-being of the Indigenous people of Hawaii.

Brief article containing comments by Australia's Social Justice Commissioner welcoming the adoption.

Essay comments on the changing and evolving world of communication methods.

Studies the effects of hydro regulations in Northern Manitoba.

Critically analyzes poems in the book Rimfire: Poetry From Aboriginal Australia by Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor and Michael J. Smith.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 2001.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2003.

Studies social linkages of street involved youth and connection to sexually transmitted infections.

Discussion on Native patients' dependency on clinical encounters in the health service system as opposed to use of alternative methods with relation to medical evacuations and southern hospitalizations.

Looks at the relationship between health and social support and its potential for affecting health in a negative way.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2007.

File contains a document relating to funding difficulties for a 1947 survey of the nutrition and health of indigenous people on the James Bay Reserve.

Discusses the problems facing American Indian welfare programs.

Article suggests that more attention should be given to the social aspects of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the impacts on human service workers.

Literature review demonstrates the closely intertwined factors that serve to highlight the differences and similarities between First Nation and non-First Nation perspectives.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1997.

Study of the literature reveals that socio-economic indicators have not been used consistently. Some of the benefits cited, however, include increased access, cost-effectiveness and better health outcomes.

Study occurred between Sept. 2011 and Dec. 2013 and used biomonitoring data from 208 women in 14 villages; researchers found an inverse relationship between education and Hg levels, but no association between education and PCB concentrations.

Looks at a study that concludes obesity is high in Aboriginal Canadians of both high and low socio-economic status.

Relationships between socio-economic status, demographics and types of injury in children 0 to 17.

Uses 2011 Census data for comparison.

Architecture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New South Wales, 1997.

Overview of integration and political autonomy of the Cree people of northern Québec starting with the first settlers arriving in James Bay.

Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2014.

Findings showed that socioeconomic factors and mortality rates were similar between the two groups.

Discusses changes in government legislation affecting the industry and the herders.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of San Diego, 2017.

Analysis shows that Indigenous Australians were not only more likely to live in neighbourhoods where the population was relatively disadvantaged, but also experienced higher levels of disadvantage than the non-Indigenous population in the same area.

Examines a form of creative resistance and discusses how a music video is used to develop a Native feminist aesthetic that is tied to land sovereignty, representation and community power.