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Excess Deaths during COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose: To determine if there was excess mortality in Alberta, Canada during the pandemic. We sought to confirm if excess mortality affected all age groups equally and determine what proportion of excess deaths is directly related to COVID-19.
S. Beesoon, M.A. Joffe, J. Bakal, K. Williams, M. Brindle   +4 more
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Health of indigenous people: Use of health services by indigenous population can be improved

BMJ, 2003
EDITOR–We note that the aboriginal groups living in India were not included in Durie's editorial on providing health services to indigenous peoples.1 We share here an experiment with a group of “primitive tribes” (as classified by the government of India) in improving their health status.
N, Devadasan, Shyla, Menon, Nandakumar, Menon, Roopa, Devadasan   +3 more
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Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance in Gonorrhea: The Alberta Model, 2012–2016

Antibiotics, 2018
Alberta established a surveillance system in 2001 to monitor resistance to antibiotics used for the treatment of gonorrhea. A retrospective review of gonorrhea cases during the last five years was conducted.
Jennifer Gratrix, Anmmd Kamruzzaman, Irene Martin, Petra Smyczek, Ron Read, Lindsay Bertholet, Prenilla Naidu, Ameeta E. Singh   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

There is Nothing that Identifies me to that Place’: Indigenous Women’s Perceptions of Health Spaces and Places [PDF]

, 2011
Indigenous women are more likely to suffer from poor health than non-Indigenous women, usually with one long term condition or several chronic diseases at once.  High psychological distress, asthma, eye problems, diabetes and heart disease are ...
Fredericks, Bronwyn
core   +4 more sources

Through the eyes of students: the satisfaction of remote Indigenous boarding students’ with a transition support service in Queensland, Australia

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2019
More than 4000 Indigenous Australian students enrol and take up a placement at boarding school each year. While reasons for attending boarding school vary, the impetus for many remote and very remote-dwelling students is restricted secondary educational ...
Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Tessa Benveniste, Janya McCalman, Katrina Rutherford, Amelia Britton, Erika Langham, Richard Stewart, Pat Saunders, Irina Kinchin, Roxanne Bainbridge   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous youth and service provider perceptions of the availability and appropriateness of services to promote Indigenous youth mental health

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Introduction Sixteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully termed Indigenous) Australian mental health, social and emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention government policy documents (2013 to 2018) have cited an urgent need for new responses to the high and increasing rates of Indigenous children’s mental health problems and ...
McCalman, Janya, McDonald, Tina, Jose, Semara, Fagan, Ruth, Walker, Kelly, Collins, Rodney   +5 more
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Indigenous nurses: participation of nursing technicians and auxiliary in indigenous health care services [PDF]

Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem, 2014
The aim of this study was to analyze the participation of Indigenous nursing technicians and aides in Indigenous health care services offered in the Xapecó Reserve, Santa Catarina, Brazil, focusing on the training and activities executed. Data collection (participant observation and interviews) and analysis were based on the ethnographic method ...
Diehl, Eliana Elisabeth, Follmann, Helga Bruxel Carvalho   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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Contacts with mental health services before suicide: a comparison of Indigenous with non-Indigenous Australians [PDF]

General Hospital Psychiatry, 2012
Most people who die by suicide never seek help, particularly members of ethnic minorities. This study compared the prevalence of contacts with mental health services, types of services accessed and factors related to help-seeking behaviors by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.All suicides by Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons from Queensland,
Sveticic, Jerneja, Milner, Allison, De Leo, Diego   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

“The support has been brilliant”: experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients attending two high performing cancer services

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Improving health outcomes for Indigenous people by providing person-centred, culturally safe care is a crucial challenge for the health sector, both in Australia and internationally.
Emma V. Taylor, Marilyn Lyford, Michele Holloway, Lorraine Parsons, Toni Mason, Sabe Sabesan, Sandra C. Thompson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source