Contemporary

Commentary piece which examines the effects that discriminatory healthcare practices have on Indigenous peoples, healthcare outcomes, and social determinants of health. Notes the successes of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities during the current pandemic and the need for Public Health Care that continues to support the self-determination of Indigenous communities.

Authors describe the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board's Extensions for Community Healthcare Outcomes (teleECHO) program for virtual health sessions and how it was used during the pandemic.

Discusses the human right and legal issues related to privacy, confidentiality, and the disclosure of health information for Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS.

Chronicles the progress of the BC Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environment (ACADRE) in building research capacity by partnering with Aboriginal organizations and communities.

Examines how popularized assumptions about culture can shape nurses’ ideas about the context of Aboriginal health, and views of Aboriginal patients.

Findings confirm that the scale is a valid tool across diverse cultural groups.

Finds that compassion and nondisciminatory attitudes were more important than ethnic knowledge in the hospital culture.

Comments on the low priority that Aboriginal health occupies in government priorities.

Presents background information on emphasis on cultural competence rather than cultural safety.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Calgary, 1999.

Kinesiology & Health Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--Queen's University, 2008.

Examines experiences of nurses implementing cultural safety care in their everyday work environment between 2004 and 2007 in New Zealand.

Provides information needed to facilitate administration of culturally competent care, and focuses on similarities between tribes.

Looks at cultural skills among health care service providers in order to better understand the wellness needs of Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS.

Contends that modern epidemiology can work in conjunction with indigenous knowledge in Aboriginal communities.

3rd edition. Provides overview and directory.

Looks at issues surrounding culture shock and cultural adaptation and presents results of a literature review.

Results indicate increased call out rate on weekends and Mondays for cardiovascular issues, and mental and behavioural disorders.

Study examines the implications of annual screening mammography for cost and mortality in American Indian populations with differing baseline breast cancer rates.

Commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Aboriginal community controlled health service in Darwin, Australia.

Discusses a new era in health care in the Moose Factory Zone in Ontario since 1996, including the transfer of the regional hospital to First Nation control and a say in the spending of health care monies.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2016.

Looks at the developing of a Sharing Dementia Care Knowledge model to discuss Indigenous dementia care decisions and knowledge sharing.

This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 2009.

Presents poem by Australian author used as tool to survive in face of the stigma of mental illness.

Argues that most research has focused on epidemiological aspects and more studies should investigate the determinants of eating behaviour.

Book review of: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay and Charlotte Reading.

Study explores medical care utilization among urban Indian Native Americans in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Overview of the sexually transmitted infections (STI) crisis that exists and case study intended to assist public health nurses working in communities to understand how certain determinants, such as Westernization, may influence transmittal.

Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2004.

Explains the traditional concept of well-being, Te Korowai.

Discusses Wisconsin's Junior Pink Shawl initiative.

Examines how Indigenous communities can identify barriers and facilitators to lower American Indigenous childhood obesity.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Identifies challenges and opportunities in six areas: accountability reporting burden; access to services; fragmented health record; service referrals; connectivity and infrastructure; and interoperability.

Using results of research, more culturally appropriate prevention programming can be designed.

Searched academic and gray literature dated to February 2016.

Discussion of the design of the Healthy Children, Strong Families program which uses a participatory approach to obesity prevention.

Describes process which took place at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus.

Looks at the procedures used to develop a culturally appropriate CD-ROM, the third phase of the study.

Comments on the prevalence of diabetes and adverse outcome of amputation among First Nations populations and discusses the ecologic associations with geography, income, and access to healthcare.

Adult Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--St. Francis Xavier University, 2006.

Looks at the high prevalence of diabetes in the elderly, First Nations and East Asians and how interventions are needed to slow down this near epidemic.

Provides the historical background of European contact which created a degradation in the local diet and contributed to elevated levels of diabetes in the Torres Strait population.