Indigenous Health

Política e intermedicalidade no Alto Xingu: do modelo à prática de atenção à saúde indígena. Cadernos de Saúde Pública

by Marina Pereira Novo

Gardens at home, gardens at school: Diet and food crop diversity in two Q'eqchi'communities in Southern Belize

by douglas reeser

A district-wide school garden project has been initiated in the Toledo District of Southern Belize in response to... more A district-wide school garden project has been initiated in the Toledo District of Southern Belize in response to reported high rates of poverty and undernutrition. This paper will discuss research conducted in the summer of 2007 with Q'eqchi' Maya in the Toledo District to determine the effect of school gardens on household diet and gardening, the composition of the household diet, and the makeup of homegardens. Food frequency questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were conducted in two rural villages, one with a school garden program and one without. Various members of NGOs working on school garden projects in the district were also interviewed about the functionality and purpose of the projects. Results discussed herein include the limited effects of the school garden program, the role that both homegardens and school gardens play in household diet and nutrition, the diverse array of fruit trees utilized by the Q’eqchi, and a description and inventory of a typical Q'eqchi' homegarden in Belize.

Supporting rural/remote primary health care placement experiences increases undergraduate nurse confidence.

by Paul Bennett

Co-authored with Jones, D., Brown, J. and Barlow, V.
On-line (24 March 2012), published in Nurse Education Today.

Abstract: This paper reports on the analysis of data fromundergraduate nursing studentswho participated in the Primary... more Abstract: This paper reports on the analysis of data fromundergraduate nursing studentswho participated in the Primary
Health Care Intensive Programme (PHCIP) in far west New South Wales between 2006 and 2008. This analysis
looks specifically at pre/post confidence levels of participants in relation to their grasp of underlying principles
associated with primary health care practice and Indigenous health care delivery. Bachelor of nursing curricula
remains heavily weighted towards acute care in large metropolitan facilities however; universities actively
seek clinical fieldwork experiences in rural/remote and Indigenous communities for their students. The PHCIP
was developed and delivered through the Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, University of
Sydney, and sought to address the disparity in student preparedness for practice in these settings through
the provision of a structured and educational rural and remote clinical placement experience. Pre/post
questionnaires, focus groups and three month post-placement phone interviews provided data on levels
of participant confidence in the areas of primary health care delivery and culturally knowledgeable practice.
This study indicates that structured preparation for practice, underpinned by authentic learning experiences
and aligned with comprehensive education programmes can have a positive impact in the areas of
skills, knowledge and attitudes and enhance the confidence of undergraduate nurses undertaking clinical
placements in these settings. These findings are relevant to contemporary nursing education and evolving
models of health care delivery for rural and remote communities.

Keywords:
Indigenous health, Curricula, Confidence, Student nurse, Rural/remote, Undergraduate, Primary Health Care, Clinical placement experience

The work of forgetting: Germs, aborigines and postcolonial expertise in the Northern Territory of Australia

by Tess Lea

Healthy country, healthy people: policy implications of links between Indigenous human health and environmental condition in tropical Australia

by Tess Lea

AN OPEN LETTER TO CAMERON COUNTY COMMISSION

by MARGO TAMEZ

Published in The Crit Legal Studies Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter 2009

Discourses of culture and illness in South African mental health care and indigenous healing, Part I: Western psychiatric power

by Jeffery Yen

Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part II: African Mentality

by Jeffery Yen

Cell lines and commodities: The Hagahai patent affair

by David Robie

Robie, D. (1997). Cell lines and commodities: The Hagahai patent affair. Pacific Journalism Review, 4: 78-91

In March 1995, the United States government issued a patent on a human cell line for an indigenous Hagahai man from... more In March 1995, the United States government issued a patent on a human cell line for an indigenous Hagahai man from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) were issued patent No. 5,397,696 by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), the first time that an indigenous person's cells have been patented. Critics saw this is a 'new and dangerous' era in intellectual property rights while even defenders conceded there are serious dilemmas embracing ethics, the law and the media. 

Care for chronic conditions for Indigenous Australians: Key informants’ perspectives on policy

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: Health Policy 2009, 92: 211-217.
Co-authored with Juan Baeza and Ross Bailie

Negotiating Navajo Identity: Constructing coherence from the fragments of chronic disease

by Matthew Nelson

The Artifact
Journal of the El Paso Archaeological Society
2011

Indigenous Knowledges in Latin America and Australia: Locating Epistemologies, Difference and Dissent | December 8-10, 2011

by Victoria Grieves

This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin... more This two day symposium and one day film festival will bring together Indigenous educators and intellectuals from Latin America to Sydney to meet with interested Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, scholars and activists, as well as non-Indigenous practitioners and allies, to discuss different models and approaches of Indigenous KnowledgeS and Education in the tertiary sector and beyond.

This project aims at helping educators and researchers in the Higher Education sector of Australia and Latin America to identify opportunities for integrating in their research and teaching and learning relevant aspects of Indigenous Knowledges in the areas of culture, education and sustainability.

Apart from the symposium itself, academic publications, public lectures by distinguished visitors and the creation of a website, the project will stimulate debate on Indigenous Knowledge and film production in Latin America and Australia by hosting a documentary screening on the topic. The selection of documentaries will be done in collaboration with the Sydney Latin American Film Festival, and this event will be targeted to the student population and the wider community.

Housing Un/healthy Bodies: Native Housing Surveys and Maori Health in New Zealand 1930-45

by Angela Wanhalla

Strength in adversity: Community health and healing in Wikwemikong

by Kristen Jacklin

14 Then Indian Health Transfer Policy in Canada: Toward Self-Determination or Cost Containment?

by Kristen Jacklin

Additional cases of maxillary canine‐first premolar transposition in several prehistoric skeletal assemblages from the Santa Barbara Channel …

by sebastian wärmländer

Could the Health Decline of Prehistoric California Indians be Related to Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) from Natural Bitumen?

by sebastian wärmländer

Ecosystem Approaches to Indigenous Health

by Crescentia Dakubo

ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN HEALTH
2010, Part 3, 141-158, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0206-1_9

Many Indigenous communities around the world have strong ties with the biophysical environment. As expressed in the... more Many Indigenous communities around the world have strong ties with the biophysical environment. As expressed in the opening chapter of this book, Indigenous communities see the forests as: “their food bank, drugstore, meat market, bakery, fruit and vegetable stand, building material centre, beverage supply, and the habitat for all of the creator’s creatures.”1 These close ties with the natural environment is reflected in many aspects of the Aboriginal culture, including how health is conceptualized and experienced. Many Indigenous peoples conceptualize health from a holistic perspective and see individual and community well-being to be intricately linked to the health of the “country.” Similarly, many Indigenous populations rely on traditional forms of healing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 80% of Indigenous population in developing countries relies on traditional healing systems as the primary source of care (World Health Organization 1999).

Bodies on Reserve: Harm and Heterotopia in Aamjiwnaang

by Sarah Marie Wiebe

Bodies on the Line: The In/Security of Everyday Life in Aamjiwnaang

by Sarah Marie Wiebe