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Lost in Maps: Regionalization and Indigenous Health Services

HealthcarePapers, 2016
The settlement of the land now known as Canada meant the erasure - sometimes from ignorance, often purposeful - of Indigenous place-names, and understandings of territory and associated obligations. The Canadian map with its three territories and ten provinces, electoral boundaries and districts, reflects boundaries that continue to fragment Indigenous
Josée G, Lavoie, Derek, Kornelsen, Yvonne, Boyer, Lloy, Wylie   +3 more
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Building practice-informed indigenous health curricula: A systematic review of pharmacy services for indigenous peoples

Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 2022
An increased need is recognized to improve Indigenous cultural safety curriculum. This review aimed to inform curriculum development by identifying and categorizing challenges and opportunities that underlie existing practices. This entails policies, pharmacy services, and health workers' perspectives associated with pharmacy services for Indigenous ...
Mojan, Fazelipour, Larry, Leung, Jason, Min, Teresa Sm'hayetsk, Ryan   +3 more
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Health services use and lifestyle choices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Social Science & Medicine, 2013
In many countries, the health outcomes of Indigenous populations are far worse than those of non-Indigenous populations. Two possible reasons for these differences are poor lifestyle choices and a lack of access to health services when ill. This paper uses Australian data on 17,449 adults, which was collected in the National Health Survey 2004-05 and ...
Stephen, Whelan, Donald J, Wright
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Health needs of indigenous Mayan older adults in Mexico and health services available

Health & Social Care in the Community, 2020
Current data indicate that inequitable health service access is one of the major problems faced by indigenous people in Mexico and around the world. The aim of this study was to analyse the perceived health needs of indigenous older adults in a Mayan region of Mexico and the health services provided to address these needs.
Blanca Estela Pelcastre‐Villafuerte, Elizabeth Cuecuecha Rugerio, Sandra G. Treviño Siller, Celina M. Rueda Neria, María Guadalupe Ruelas‐González   +4 more
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Disparities in surgical health service delivery and outcomes for indigenous children

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2023
Evidence of health disparities for Indigenous children requiring surgical care is lacking. We present a systematic review of the literature examining possible disparities in surgical care and outcomes for pediatric patients of Indigenous ethnicity.PubMed, Cochrane, MEDLINE, gray literature.Literature review, using PubMed, Cochrane, MEDLINE, and gray ...
Martha-Conley Ingram, Sasha Becker, Sydney L. Olson, Stacy Tsai, Arjun Sarkar, David H. Rothstein, Erik D. Skarsgard, Mehul V Raval   +7 more
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Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: the first year's experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service

Medical Journal of Australia, 2009
To evaluate the role of the adult health check for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15-54 years, in an urban Indigenous primary health care setting.Cross-sectional study of Indigenous patients recruited opportunistically from the Inala Indigenous Health Service between 1 June 2007 and 31 July 2008.Newly identified cardiovascular risk ...
Spurling, Geoffrey, Hayman, Noel E., Cooney, Anna L.   +2 more
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Indigenizing mental health services: New Zealand experience

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2011
Mental health services in New Zealand have been significantly altered by Māori cultural values. Since 1980, a monocultural approach has given way to the incorporation of Māori language, Māori health perspectives, and Māori psychological frameworks in the assessment, treatment, and care of patients.
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Incorporating indigenous knowledge in health services: a consumer partnership framework

Public Health, 2019
Healthcare policy and planning should be informed by a partnership between healthcare services and healthcare users. This is critical for people who access care frequently such as indigenous Australians who have a high burden of chronic kidney disease.
R, Kirkham, L J, Maple-Brown, N, Freeman, B, Beaton, R, Lamilami, M, Hausin, A-M, Puruntatemeri, P, Wood, S, Signal, S W, Majoni, A, Cass, J T, Hughes   +11 more
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Telemental Health Services for Indigenous Communities in Australia

2017
Telemental health has been recognized as one of the key methods to closing disparities in health indices in the indigenous Australian populations. The conditions in which Australia’s indigenous communities are presently living have also been equated with parts of the world with limited resources.
Sisira Edirippulige, Matthew Bambling, Pablo Fernandez   +2 more
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Global Focus, Local Acts: Providing Mental Health Services to Indigenous People

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2011
Four fundamental challenges to the provision of mental health services to indigenous populations are discussed, including proximity to services, community knowledge of mental health principles, human resource use, and cultural congruence. We describe concepts common to most indigenous approaches to mental well-being, including restoring health through ...
Kirk, Zinck, Shelly, Marmion
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