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Traditional Healing: A Review of Literature

Alternate Title
Working Paper (Covaluator Network). Series 2: Evaluation and Policy ; no.2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Emma Williams
John Guenther
Allan Arnott
Covers material dealing with definitions, objectives of the process and methods used.
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Traditional Indian Healers in Northern Manitoba: An Emerging Relationship with the Health Care System

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Gregory
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 163-174
Examines the relationship between non-Native nurses with traditional healers and elders in northern communities and discusses the relevance of traditional healing approaches to medicine for Aboriginal people.
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Training Detoxification Workers

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Helena Novak
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, June 1984, pp. 50-51
Examines the training process for workers at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
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Treatment Eligibility in Alaska Native and American Indian Persons With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen E. Livingston
Lisa J. Townshend-Bulson
Dana L. Bruden
Brian J. McMahon
Chriss E. Homan
James E. Gove
Heike Deubner
Michael G. Bruce
Renee F. Robinson
David R. Gretch
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18445
Cohort study looked at treatment options and reasons for pursuing the various options.
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Tribal Implementation of a Patient-Centred Medical Home Model in Alaska Accompanied by Decreased Hospital Use

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet M. Johnston
Julia J. Smith
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Denise A Dillard
Quenna N. Szafran
David L. Driscoll
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 20960
Results indicated that implementation of model appeared to decrease hospitalization rates.
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Tuberculosis among Northern Manitoba First Nations, 2008–2012: Program Performance On- and Off-Reserve

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. Andrew Basham
Brenda Elias
Anne Fanning
Pamela Orr
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 6, December 2019, pp. 688-696
Retrospective review of Tuberculosis (TB) Program performance in northern Manitoba. Information on 149 people diagnosed with TB and 3560 of their contacts was extracted from the Manitoba TB Registry and analyzed. Results indicate that program performance is dependent on residence on or off reserve and that action is needed to address multiple program performance factors.
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Tuberculosis in Canada 2002

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Public Health Agency of Canada
Statistics revealed the highest rate in Canada was in Nunavut and the lowest was in Nova Scotia; includes tabulations demographic and clinical factors.
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Tuberculosis in Greenland: Current Situation and Future Challenges

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
V.Ø. Thomsen
T. Lillebaek
F. Stenz
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 225-229
Findings recommend taking steps to eliminate factors prolonging epidemics such as improved housing conditions.
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Turning Around the Intergenerational Impact of Residential Schools on Aboriginal People: Implications for Health Policy and Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dawn Smith
Colleen Varcoe
Nancy Edwards
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 37, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 38-60
Describes the perspectives of community-based stakeholders on their experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating care for pregnant and parenting Aboriginal women and families.
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[Two-Eyed Seeing in Medicine] (Authors' Draft)

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Murdena Marshall
Albert Marshall
[Cheryl Bartlett]
Chapter two in forthcoming book: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada: Beyond the Social edited by Margo Greenwood, Charlotte Reading, Sarah de Leeuw and Nicole Marie Lindsay.
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U of S Researcher to Receive Achievement Award

Alternate Title
U of S Researcher to Receive Achievement Award [National Aboriginal Achievement Awards]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 11, February 2004, p. 22

Brief profile of research associate, Lee Wilson, recipient of the 2004 National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the science and technology category. Lee has the distinction of being the first Metis to earn his PhD in chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

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Undernutrition and Obesity in Indigenous Children: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan R. Ruben
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1285-1302
Looks at high quality data from Canada, United States, New Zealand and Australia concluding that intervention strategies are lacking for indigenous children.
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Understanding Integrated Care: The Aboriginal Health Initiative Heads North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kali Romano
Amy Passmore
Trent Kellock
Jennifer Nevin
UBC Medical Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, September 2011, pp. 34-35
Looks at program offered at the Whitehorse General Hospital which allows Aboriginal people to access traditional practices, which are merged with western healthcare.
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Understanding the Impact of the Pain Experience on Aboriginal Children's Wellbeing: Viewing Through a Two-Eyed Seeing Lens

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margot Latimer
Danielle Simandl
Allen Finley
Sharon Rudderham
Katherine Harman .... [et al.]
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental, Spiritual and Cultural Health, 2014, pp. 22-37
Comments on using an approach to pain assessment in Aboriginal children that employs both Indigenous and Western knowledge.
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Understanding the Needs of Nurses Working in First Nations and Inuit Communities with Respect to Misuse of Tobacco, and Current Trends in Health Promotion: A National Survey

Alternate Title
Tobacco Needs Analysis, 2003
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
Results of survey conducted by Aboriginal Nurses Association with their members over the course of one month to ascertain tobacco misuse, program capacity, trends in health promotion, and future directions for tobacco control.
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Underweight Children

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carrol Lynch
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, December 1984, pp. 50-56
Discusses the challenges and ideas to overcome the problem of underweight Aboriginal children in Australia.
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Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well-Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael J. Kral
Lori Idlout
J. Bruce Minore
Ronald J. Dyck
Laurence J. Kirmayer
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 48, no. 3-4, 2011, pp. 426-438
Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered.
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Unmasking Dashkayah: Storytelling and HIV Prevention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry Tafoya
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 9, no. 2, 2000, pp. 53-65
Examines how the traditional story and its telling remains relevant in helping with today's problems.
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Unmet Health Needs and Discrimination by Healthcare Providers among an Indigenous Population in Toronto, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Tjensvoll Kitching
Michelle Firestone
Berit Schei
Sara Wolfe
Cheryllee Bourgeois ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 111, no. 1, February 2020, pp. 40-49
Cross-sectional study draws on information from 836 participants who completed the Our Health Counts Toronto (OHCT) comprehensive health survey. Results indicate a 28.5% prevalence of discrimination by a healthcare provider and found it to be positively associated with unmet health needs (prevalence: 27.3%).
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Unproductive to Re-invent Wheel on Health Care

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, August 1, 2008, p. A15
Contends that to improve overall health an integration of knowledge about environmental and lifestyle issues into the health care field's scarce resources is necessary.
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Urban First Nations People with Disabilities Speak Out

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas Durst
Shelly Manuel South
Mary Bluechardt
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 3, no. 1, The Health of Urban Aboriginal People: From Woundedness to Resilience, September 2006, pp. 34-43
Study reveals the Aboriginal rate of disabilities is twice the national average.
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Use and Outcomes of Peritoneal Dialysis among Aboriginal People in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcello Tonelli
Brenda Hemmelgarn
Braden Manns
Sara Davison
Clara Bohm ... [et al.]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, vol. 16, no. 2, February 2005, pp. 482-488
Study examined rates of peritoneal dialysis (PD) use, technique failure, and mortality of Aboriginal dialysis patients and compared results with non-Aboriginals.
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