Access to health services is widely acknowledged as a determinant of health. This fact sheet explores how accessibility, availability and acceptability of health services impact the health and health outcomes of Indigenous peoples across Canada. Although Canada boasts a universal health care system that is widely considered to be among the best in the world, Indigenous peoples continue to experience barriers to accessing health care. The fact sheet will examine some of the complexities that influence Indigenous peoples’ experiences and encounters with the health system including colonialism, geography, health systems, health human resources, jurisdictional issues, communications, cultural safety, and traditional medicines. In order to address the ongoing health disparities experienced by Indigenous peoples, the fact sheet concludes by providing strategies and innovations for improving their access to health services.
Find information about health care services and non-insured health benefits (NIHB), careers, how to fight drug and substance use, environmental health, food safety and how to have a healthy pregnancy. [from Indigenous Health website]
Contents: Part 1. Joanie's people: discarding the masks of shame 2. Heartland: where the cure can be worse than the disease 3. The long sentence: and the first shall be last 4. Restoring the song: lessons.
The author interviewed Canadian Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, include treatment in the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton and several similar institutions throughout Canada. [from back cover]
Formerly called the Journal of Aboriginal Health from 2004 to 2012, the journal was renamed the International Journal of Indigenous Health to reflect its growing international readership.
International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH) was established to advance knowledge and understanding to improve Indigenous health. This peer-reviewed, online, open-access Journal shares innovative health research across disciplines, Indigenous communities, and countries.
Originally found at: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijih. (originally published by UVic Centre for Aboriginal Health)
The International Journal of Indigenous Health is published bi-annually (formerly titled the Journal of Aboriginal Health, Volumes 1-9).
Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- The Pre-Columbian world -- The genocide begins -- Expansion, exploitation, and extermination -- The penetration of North America -- The European struggle for hegemony -- Tragedy, the United States is created -- Revolutions in the "New World" -- Manifest destiny and the U.S. Indian wars -- Afrikan slavery, Afrikan rebellion, and the U.S. Civil War -- Black reconstruction and deconstruction -- The colonization of Canada -- Extermination and assimilation: Two methods, one goal -- The people AIM for freedom -- The struggle for land -- In total resistance.
Contents: Part 1. Joanie's people: discarding the masks of shame 2. Heartland: where the cure can be worse than the disease 3. The long sentence: and the first shall be last 4. Restoring the song: lessons.
The author interviewed Canadian Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, include treatment in the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton and several similar institutions throughout Canada. [from back cover]
Contents: Part 1. Joanie's people: discarding the masks of shame 2. Heartland: where the cure can be worse than the disease 3. The long sentence: and the first shall be last 4. Restoring the song: lessons.
The author interviewed Canadian Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, include treatment in the Nanaimo Indian Hospital, Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton and several similar institutions throughout Canada. [from back cover]
Contents: Part 1. Prevalence, causes and public discourse 1. Current and projected dementia prevalence in First Nations populations in Canada 2. Indigenous vascular dementia 3. Story about Joe in the news media Part 2. Indigenous perspectives on care and prevention 4. Perceptions of dementia prevention among Anishinaabe living on Manitoulin Island 5. Understanding from within project: perspectives from Indigenous caregivers 6. Oldest age does not come alone Part 3. Applying theory and knowledge to practice 7. Depression, diabetes and dementia: historical, biocultural and generational factors among American Indian and Alaska native elders 8. Adapting CIRCA-BC in the post-residential-school era 9. Focus(ing) on love and respect: translating elders’ teachings on aging and memory loss into learning tools for children and youth.
This book brings together research studies and Indigenous teaching stories on the topic of memory loss in Indigenous communities. [from back cover]
Documentary featuring Aboriginal people recovering from depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia—and related issues such as anxiety, suicide, trauma, and substance use. The DVD honours Aboriginal people sharing their personal experiences with mental illnesses and recovery. The partners involved in this project included Fraser Health Authority’s Aboriginal Services, Mission Mental Health, Mission Indian Friendship Centre Society, Stó:lo Nation Health Support Services, and Bear Image Productions. Fraser Health was the primary funder with the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information providing funding for steering and promotional support. Staff from the Canadian Mental Health Association’s BC Division provided input on the BC Partners’ behalf. [from back cover]
This database offers a single point of access to Indigenous resources including books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, archival resources and maps.
Topics include health, law, education, spirituality, Indigenous knowledge, governance, history.
This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. [from back cover]
Indigenous intellectuals created a book with hands-on suggestions and activities to enable Indigenous communities to decolonize themselves. [from back cover]
Features Indigenous scholars, writers and activists who collaborated to create a sequel to For Indigenous Eyes Only. The title reflects an understanding that decolonizing actions must begin in the mind and that creative, consistent decolonized thinking shapes and empowers the brain, which in turn provides a major prime for positive change. [from back cover]
On January 22, 1979, an 11-yr-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the [BC] College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and federal ministries of health and national media, because their private tragedy held implications that reached far beyond one child, one physician, one town and even one century. [from back cover]
