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Indigenous wholistic theory for health : enhancing traditional-based indigenous health services in Vancouver

2005
How traditional healing can be enhanced in cities, has been the subject of discussion between myself and Indigenous Elders, and between many others, for over 15 years. This project was initiated and completed through the recommendations of Indigenous Elders, through prayer and dreaming, and through increasingly specific factors: 1.
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Mental health services: indigenous models of care in the community

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008
Measures of mental health services including rehabilitation initiatives have been pronounced to be inadequate the world over. Indicators such as mental health policy or legislation financing of mental health care availability of community mental health services mental hospital beds general hospital psychiatry beds and numbers of mental health ...
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Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: the Inala experience

Medical Journal of Australia, 2009
In 1994, only 12 Indigenous people attended the mainstream general practice in Inala, south-western Brisbane, Queensland. An Indigenous community focus group and telephone interviews revealed deficits such as: few items (eg, artwork) that Indigenous people could identify with; lack of Indigenous staff; staff perceived as unfriendly; inflexibility ...
Hayman, Noel E.   +2 more
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Engaging Indigenous People in Mental Health Services in Australia

2017
Engaging with Indigenous Australians through appropriate and effective mental health services is an urgent imperative in Australia. The health status of Indigenous Australians lags unacceptably behind other Australians on almost every aspect of health, including mental health.
Timothy A. Carey, Dennis R. McDermott
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Decolonizing Mental Health Services for Indigenous Clients: A Training Program for Mental Health Professionals

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2018
AbstractCulturally appropriate mental health services are essential for Indigenous people who suffer the greatest mental health disparities of any ethnic group in the U.S. However, few mental health professionals receive training to work with this population.
Melissa E, Lewis   +2 more
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Moving toward culturally sensitive services for Indigenous people: A non-Indigenous mental health nursing perspective

Contemporary Nurse, 2006
Indigenous psychiatric morbidity, whilst culturally different in presentation to white communities has been suggested to run at a mean prevalence rate of 13.5% of the major disorders found in non-Indigenous communities. This paper discusses the socio-political and cross cultural issues to do with mental health for Australian Indigenous from a non ...
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Encounters with difference: Mental health nurses and Indigenous Australian users of mental health services

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2019
AbstractThis article presents findings from the multi‐sited ethnography of mental health nursing practice as it relates to the care of Indigenous users of public mental health services in Australia. It provides an analysis of mental health nurses beliefs and ideas about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people encountered over the course of this ...
Luke Molloy   +3 more
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A comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous users of MindSpot: an Australian digital mental health service

Australasian Psychiatry, 2018
Objective: To report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) users of MindSpot, a national service for the remote assessment and treatment of anxiety and depression. Methods: The characteristics and treatment outcomes of Indigenous patients who registered with MindSpot between January 2015 and December 2016, were compared with non ...
Nickolai Titov   +4 more
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The Canada Health Act and Medicare Services for Indigenous Peoples

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The Canada Health Act (CHA) (1985) has fostered gaps in Indigenous healthcare services, through its ambiguous inclusion of Indigenous communities without acknowledging their unique needs and failing to engage the fact that provincial/territorial, federal and Indigenous governments all act as primary care providers.
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Access to health services by indigenous peoples in Asia

2016
Indigenous peoples living in Asia have limited access to appropriate health care services. As a consequence of this and other health determinants, they suffer the worst health of identifiable groups in the Asian region. Indigenous peoples in Asia die younger, have higher rates of malnutrition, child mortality, and carry high burden of “diseases of the ...
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