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In Search of the Truth: Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paisly Michele Symenuk
Dawn Tisdale
Danielle H. Bourque Bearskin
Tessa Munro
Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, vol. 2, no. 1, Special Issue: Nīpawīstimatowin -“bearing witness for one another”, 2020, pp. 84-96
A discussion of lack of results in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action to assess the profession's complicity in colonization practices and its impact on Indigenous women, followed by exploration of two potential barriers to the work.
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Incontinence - Not Just A Wee Problem

Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, January/February 2000, p. 11
Describes the formation of a working group of Australian Indigenous men in order to improve understanding of this sensitive issue.
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Incorporating Traditional Healing into an Urban American Indian Health Organization: A Case Study of Community Member Perspectives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William E. Hartmann
Joseph P. Gone
Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 59, no. 4, October 2012, pp. 542-554
Looks at the dilemma Urban Indian Health Organizations are facing to provide standard Western and traditional healing without any guidance on how to integrate the services.
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The Indian Health Surveillance Report: Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2009

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Indian Health Service
Presents statistics and trends reflecting the rates of disease transmission in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Findings indicate that while progress has been made, more needs to be done to improve the health status of Native peoples.
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Indigenous Beliefs about Biomedical and Bush Medicine Treatment Efficacy for Indigenous Cancer Patients: A Review of the Literature

Alternate Title
Indigenous Beliefs of Cancer Treatment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. D. van Schaik
S. C. Thompson
Internal Medicine Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, February 2012, pp. 184-191
Results from search of peer-reviewed journal papers suggest five themes: concerns about toxicity of treatment; disconnect with physician; fears about absence from home during treatment; different beliefs about causes of the disease; and failure to address holistic health.
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Indigenous Education: Creating and Maintaining Positive Health

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Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo-ann Archibald
Eduardo Jovel
Rod McCormick
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 1-3
Editorial to introduce themed issue on the relationship between health and education gives an overview of the articles contained in it.
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Indigenous Health: Applying Truth and Reconciliation in Alberta Health Services

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kienan Williams
Melissa L. Potestio
Val Austen-Wiebe
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 191, no. Suppl 1, December 2019, pp. S44-S46

Article examines how Alberta Health Services (AHS) can work to address the health disparities faced by Indigenous peoples in the province. Focuses on collaborative community engagement, relationship building and Indigenous self-determination.

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Indigenous Health Care: Advances in Nursing Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Smye
Maria Rameka
Eileen Willis
Contemporary Nurse, vol. 22, no. 2, September 2006
Provides an introduction to the issue, outlining various submissions that look into the challenges and advances in nursing with Inidigneous peoples across areas of practice, including clinical, educational, research, and policy.
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Indigenous Health Leadership: Protocols, Policy, and Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tonya Gomes
Alannah Young Leon
Lee Brown
Pimatisiwin, vol. 11, no. 3, 2013, pp. 565-578
Discusses the role of the Vancouver Coastal Health’s Aboriginal Health Practice Council and their collaboration with Aboriginal community members and health care practitioners to develop and implement best health care practices.
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Indigenous Health Research

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sheila Laroque
Kevin Read
A playlist of videos providing context and resources for conducting research about Indigenous people in the Canadian healthcare.
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Indigenous Health: Time For Top-Down Change?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 188, no. 11, August 09, 2016, pp. E247-E248
Discusses the calls for fundamental change from the Public Health 2016 conference held in Toronto that questioned the delays in changes to the health care system for Indigenous Canadians.
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Indigenous Initiative for the Start-up of Health Services in Urban Areas: The Holistic Strategy Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie Leclerc
Caroline Lemay
Damir Radic
Jean-Baptiste Birote
Noemie Benedict Boulanger ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 17, no. 2, 2022, pp. 96-106

Examines a project by the Centre d’amitié autochtone de Trois-Rivières (CAATR) to address access to healthcare services for urban Indigenous people in Quebec.

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Indigenous Leaders Call For Control of Health Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Webster
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 188, no. 10, July 2016, p. E206
Reactions coming from various agencies and leaders following the Indigenous Health Conference: Toward Health and Reconciliation held in May 2016 in Toronto, ON.
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Indigenous-led Health Care Partnerships in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay Allen
Andrew Hatala
Sabina Ijaz
Elder David Courchene
Elder Burma Bushie
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 192, no. 9, March 2, 2020, pp. E208-E216
Authors examine Indigenous-led health collaborations in Canada which focus on integrating contemporary and traditional Indigenous knowledge and health care practices, including elements of cultural activities, self-determination, governance, language, medicine and wellness.
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Indigenous Men's Health: Access Strategy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Aaron Briscoe
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 7-11
Examines significant factors to be considered regarding the development of a National Indigenous Men's Health Policy in Australia.
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Indigenous Populations Health Protection: A Canadian Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katya L. Richardson
Michelle S. Driedger
Nick J. Pizzi
Jianhong Wu
Seyed M. Moghadas
BMC Public Health, vol. 12, 2012, p. article no. 1098
Discusses workshop on Indigenous Population Health Protection held May 7-8, 2012 at York University.
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Indigenous Relationality and Kinship and the Professionalization of a Health Workforce

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erika Campbell
Alyssa Austin
Maddison Bax-Campbell
Esmé Ariss
Sophia Auton ... [et al.]
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Heartwork, October 12, 2020, pp. 8-13
Authors advocate for the prioritization of Indigenous systems of kinship and relationality over the professionalization of healthcare providers in healthcare practices as a means of decolonizing biomedical healthcare frameworks and systems.
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Indigenous Roundtable Must Address Drug Abuse

Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 2000, p. 8
Alcohol and Other Drug Council of Australia (ADCA) calls on Federal Government to include a substance abuse expert in the proposed Indigenous Families and Communities Roundtable.
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Indigenous Voices on Measuring and Valuing Health States

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Esther Willing
Sarah-Jane Paine
Emma Wyeth

Braden Te Ao
Rhema Vaithianathan
Papaarangi Reid
AlterNative, vol. 16, no. 1, March 2020, pp. 3-9
Qualitative scoping study which explores lived experience of Māori participants caring for family members through illness; explores the values and worldviews that most measures of health and well-being in settler societies and asks what Indigenous measures of health might look like.
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Indigenous Young Fathers' Support Group

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas Jia
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 18-20
Describes the development of a support group for young Indigenous fathers in the Brisbane, Australia area.
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Informal Care and Older Native Canadians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Norman Buchignani
Christopher Armstrong-Esther
Ageing & Society, vol. 19, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 3-32
Presents data on ageing, caregiving and other health matters from the Alberta Native Seniors Study.
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Innovative Primary Care Delivery in Rural Alaska: A Review of Patient Encounters Seen By Community Health Aides

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Golnick
Elvin Asay
Ellen Provost
Dabney Van Liere
Cora Bosshart ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18543
Results indicate that the Community Health Practitioners provide a wide range of care to residents in remote communities that would otherwise go untreated.
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Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance Among the Wounaan People of Columbia

Alternate Title
Notes From the Field: Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance Among the Wounaan People of Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Cappelli
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 89-95
Discusses how 63 families worked diligently to find a peaceful way to recover their own indigenous land.
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Insights from a Jordan’s Principle Child First Initiative in Alberta: Implications for Advancing Health Equity for First Nations Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Gerlach
Meghan Sangster
Vandna Sinha
First Nations Health Consortium
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. 21-33

Examines the implementation of Canada's Child First Initiative and some of the challenges that it faced.

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