Communities First

Building moral communities? First, do no harm.

As concern for the oral health of vulnerable populations grows, dentistry continues to seek effective ways to respond. In August 2005, Dr. Donald Patthoff and Dr. Frank Catalanotto convened a national workshop at the American Dental Association headquarters on the ethics of access to oral health care. A series of papers were produced for the workshop and subsequently revised for publication. Th...

Injury in First Nations communities in Ontario.

BACKGROUND High and variable rates of injury have been reported in Aboriginal communities in Canada. This has not been well studied for specific injury types. We sought to compare the rate and categories of injuries leading to hospital admission among those in First Nations communities relative to those living in small northern and southern communities in Ontario. METHODS Administrative data ...

Identifying First Responder Communities Using Social Network Analysis

First responder communities must identify technologies that are effective in performing duties ranging from law enforcement to emergency medical to fire fighting. We aimed to create tools that gather and assist in quickly understanding responders’ requirements using semantic technologies and social network analysis. We describe the design and prototyping of a set of semantically-enabled interac...

Safe drinking water standards for First Nations communities.

Settler Colonialism and First Nations e-Communities in Northwestern Ontario

Remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities are in a constant struggle to maintain their autonomy in a settler colonial political and economic structure attempting to force community members’ migration off their traditional lands to urban centres. This paper describes how First Nations in Northwestern Ontario are using social media along with locally owned and managed information and...