In the field of Arctic health, “resilience” is a concept used to describe capacity recover from adversities. The term widely in policy contexts; however, peoples and communities question whether an appropriate human dimensions health well-being as it currently applied. A scoping review peer-reviewed gray literature was conducted. We searchable databases, Google Scholar, Dartmouth College Librar...

Background: Despite a higher prevalence of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) amongst Canadian Indigenous peoples, there is paucity studies focused on TSCI. We present the first Canada-wide study comparing TSCI and non-Indigenous peoples. Methods: This retrospective analysis prospectively-collected data from Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry (RHSCIR) 2004-2019. divided participants into ...

OBJECTIVE To inventory and describe currently available health performance measurement systems for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in Canada to identify why current measurement systems are inadequate to inform community or regional level health planning. METHODS Inventory, classification, and synthesis of strengths and weaknesses among existing health system performance measures throug...

There is a growing body of research documenting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities' observations changes in climate. The accuracy, efficacy, transferability this depends on its motives methods. In paper, we report to produce working knowledge climate impacts local biophysical systems the Tiwi Islands Northern Australia. Interviews with 52 people were combined diverse forms aerial data nua...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...

In 1995, the Philippines officially adopted Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) as its strategy for sustainable forest management in recognition of the urgent need to put “social fences” in open access forests and forest lands. CBFM was conceptualized to partly respond to the issue of the state as being the biggest “absentee landlord” by recognizing de-facto resource management of communit...

BACKGROUND The proposed study was developed in response to increased suicide risk identified in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who are compelled to attend boarding schools across Queensland when there is no secondary schooling provision in their remote home communities. It will investigate the impact of a multicomponent mentoring intervention to increase levels of psychosocial r...

The southeastern part of Nigeria is one of the major hotspots of useful plant genetic resources. These endemic species are associated with a rich indigenous knowledge and cultural diversity in relation to their use and conservation. Sphenostylis stenocarpa (ex. A. Rich.) Harms., (African Yam Bean (AYB)), is one such crop within the family of Fabaceae. Its nutritional and eco-friendly characteri...

Knowledge translation at the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research emerged through several population health research initiatives conducted in partnership with Canadian Indigenous peoples. An initial collaboration to carry out a regional health survey laid the foundation to share leadership, power and decision-making, and resulted in a program to build capacity in the Fir...

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process by which the benefits of development are weighed against its environmental costs. Since indigenous communities are the principal environmental stewards of their land, it is imperative that they are consulted and play an active part in the EIA process. Their input can help to correct a scientific analysis that “misrepresents the local context...