Division of Aboriginal People’s Health Reports

Core Advisory Terms of Reference
^{Draft terms of reference to the Core Advisory Committee for the Division of Aboriginal People’s Health.}

The Aboriginal Pathway prepared by Karen Joseph
^{A proposed pathway to increase the numbers of Aboriginal people choosing and being successful in a career in medicine.}

Aboriginal Residency Site, Department of Family Practice

^{The UBC Aboriginal Residency Program is designed to improve the health of Aboriginal people in British Columbia by training Aboriginal and other family physicians to be sensitive to and empowered with skills and knowledge of Aboriginal health issues.}

Department of Family Practice, UBC
^{The Department of Family Practice is dedicated to the education of physicians and midwives who will be effective providers of patient-centered care in the context of family and community.}

Faculty of Medicine, UBC
^{The University of British Columbia is home to the only Faculty of Medicine in British Columbia. It has more than 2,590 students at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels and provides teaching to several thousand additional students from other disciplines at UBC.}

First Nations House of Learning
^{The First Nations House of Learning makes the University’s vast resources more accessible to Aboriginal Peoples, and improves the University’s ability to meet the needs of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students.}

Institute for Aboriginal Health, UBC
^{The Institute for Aboriginal Health assists health and human service faculties, schools, and departments in program and planning development concerning Aboriginal health issues; and develops effective mechanisms that connect with Aboriginal communities.}

8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & The Way Forward
_{A special CBC tv, radio and web series from a team of Aboriginal storytellers from across the country.}

Aboriginal Canada Portal: Health and Social Services
_{This site provides information, statistics and contact information on Aboriginal health issues including addiction, mental health and accident prevention.}

Aboriginal Healing Foundation
_{The Aboriginal Healing Foundation facilitates sustainable healing processes that address the legacy of physical abuse and sexual abuse in the Residential School system, including intergenerational impacts.}

Association of American Indian Physicians
_{The Association of American Indian Physicians seeks to improve the health of American Indian and Alaskan Natives by providing leadership in health arenas affecting American Indians and combining modern medicine with traditional healing.}

Assembly of First Nations: Health and Social Secretariat
_{The Heath and Social Secretariat of the Assembly of First Nations is mandated to promote and support the well being of First Nations. They provide policy analysis, communications and lobbying on behave of First Nations communities.}

BC Ministry of Health Services: Aboriginal Health
_{An Aboriginal lens to strategic priorities, legislation, policy and program development and Aboriginal organizations. This branch also works with health authorities to ensure that services are delivered in a culturally appropriate way.}

Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
_{The Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network provides advocacy, information and opportunities for support for Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS.}

Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health
_{The Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Healths’ role is to lead a national advanced research agenda in the area of aboriginal health and promote innovative research that will serve to improve the health of aboriginal people in Canada.}

Canadian Mental Health Association: Aboriginal Mental Health
_{This site provides research papers and current best practice theory for improving the mental health situation for Aboriginal peoples.}

Centre for Native Policy and Research: Health Publications
_{The Centre is a non-partisan, social justice, progressive, Aboriginal think tank on the social, economic, and environmental public policy and research concerns of Aboriginal people in British Columbia and Canada.}

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples: Health Policy Program
_{CAP’s mandate is to advocate for policy and program change that would better reflect the unique situations and corresponding health needs of all Aboriginal peoples in Canada regardless of status or residency.}

Healing Our Spirit: BC Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Society
_{Healing Our Spirit is an HIV/AIDS service organization, which provides: education and prevention, care, treatment and support, and research and evaluation services to Aboriginal peoples in BC.}

Health Canada: First Nations, Inuit & Aboriginal Health
_{Health Canada works with First Nations and Inuit communities to improve over all health indicators. This site provides First Nations and Inuit health statistics and as well information on healthy lifestyle and other federally funded health initiatives.}

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Health and Well Being
_{Indian and Northern Affairs Canada works with other partners to help Aboriginal and Northern individuals, families and communities to improve their health and social well being.}

Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC)
_{IPAC is a network of Indigenous physicians, students and community members united by a responsibility to improve the health of Indigenous communities in Canada.}

McGill University: Centre for Indigenous Peoples Nutrition and Environment
_{This research division of McGill University was created in response to Aboriginal peoples concerns about environmental contaminants in traditional food sources. Research focuses on food systems of Indigenous peoples in various parts of the world.}

National Aboriginal Diabetes Association
_{The National Aboriginal Diabetes Association advocates diabetes as a priority health issue for Aboriginal people by working with communities and individuals to promote a culturally appropriate, healthy lifestyle.}

National Aboriginal Health Organization
_{The National Aboriginal Health Organization is an Aboriginal-designed and controlled body committed to influencing and advancing the health and well-being of Aboriginal Peoples.}

Native Women’s Association of Canada: Health Unit
_{The NWAC participates, at the national level, on many working groups and advisory and steering committees to ensure that the specific needs of Aboriginal women are being included and/or addressed.}

Turtle Island Native Network: Healing and Wellness
_{The Turtle Island Native Network: Healing and Wellness section provides links to articles and information on various topics in Aboriginal health.}

Vancouver Coastal Health: Aboriginal Health
_{Working with local Aboriginal communities, Vancouver Coastal Health: Aboriginal Health, seeks to identify and address the health needs of the regional Aboriginal population in a culturally appropriate way.}

Vancouver Native Health Society
_{Vancouver Native Health Society delivers medical, counseling and social services, accessible without fees to native and non-native individuals residing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.}

Where are the Children: Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools: Intergenerational Health Impacts
_{This site lists the extensive intergenerational health problems left by residential schools that can be experienced by residential school survivors and their families as a result of the trauma of residential schools.}

Cultural Competency and Safety: A First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Context & Guidelines for Health Professionals
_{The National Aboriginal Health Organization created these in 2007. Presented in an easy to follow manner, they outline how health professionals can have better relationships with Indigenous patients and students through basic understanding of cultural differences.}

OCAP: Ownership, Control, Access and Possession
_{The National Aboriginal Health Organization created these guidelines in 2007. This report details the importance of First Nations self-determination of research and health care.}

University of Victoria, School of Nursing: Indigenous Initiatives
_{The University of Victoria School of Nursing has developed cultural safety modules in partnership with the Tsawout First Nation.}

Module 1: Peoples’ Experiences of Colonization
Module 2: Peoples’ Experiences of Oppression
Module 3: Peoples’ Experiences of Colonization in Relation to Health Care

Culhane Speck, Dara. (1987). An Error in Judgment: The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian/White Community. Vancouver: Talon Books.
_{An Error in Judgment documents the events following the death of a young First Nations girl who received poor medical treatment. What is revealed are problems between First Nations communities and public health that go beyond the death of one child.}

Fournier, Suzanne and Crey, Ernie. Stolen From Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.
_{Stolen from Our Embrace chronicles the stories of Aboriginal children in Canada from Residential Schools, to the 60’s swoop, to the current reconstruction of Aboriginal communities.}

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. (1998). Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia 1900-50. Vancouver: UBC Press.
_{Colonizing Bodies examines the impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved.}

Kirmayer, Laurence and Valaskakis, Gail. (2008). Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
_{This collection addresses the origins of mental problems and culturally appropriate and effective responses for mental health services and promotion.}

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis. (1998). Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing. New York, Fireside.
_{Using his personal experiences, Dr Mehl-Madrona illustrates how traditional healing practices can complement and fill in where western medicine falls short.}

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis. (2003). Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company.
_{Using hundreds of cases of people who have experienced miracle cures, Dr Mehl-Madrona shows how survivors have found purpose and healing.}

Stephenson, Peter H. et al eds. (1995.) A Persistent Spirit: Towards Understanding Aboriginal Health in British Columbia. Victoria: Department of Geography, University of Victoria.
_{A Persistent Spirit tells the story of Aboriginal health in British Columbia from contact to the present day. Today, Aboriginal communities are healing through control of local health initiatives and returning to traditional health practices.}

Waldram, James B., Herring, Ann, D., and Young, T. Kue. (1995.) Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural and Epidemiological Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
_{A comprehensive document of the historical and current health situation of Aboriginal peoples. Aboriginal Health in Canada explores socio-political factors relating to health as well as current trends and health promotion strategies.}

Waldram, James. B. (2004). Revenge of the Windigo: Construction of the mind and mental health of North American Aboriginal People. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
^{Revenge of the Windigo raises questions regarding academic knowledge of Aboriginal mental health. Waldram shows how despite the existence of extensive research on Aboriginal people, this research not only fails to represent what it means to be Aboriginal but also creates a distorted picture of Aboriginal peoples reality.}