Research Catalog

Title

The path to healing : report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues.

Author

National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues (1993 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Publication

[Ottawa] : Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Description

viii, 361 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

Round Table brought together approx. 80 people from across the country actively involved in health development in Aboriginal communities. Major thematic concerns: fourth world health conditions; environmental context; aboriginal cultural foundations to understanding health; understanding aboriginality and aboriginal rights; political support of health concerns; jurisdictional frustration and innovation; practice before policy (or, just do it); community healing as a fragile process; recognition of special needs and priorities.

Alternative Title

Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > Canada
• Indians of North America > Canada > Social conditions
• Native peoples > Canada > Health and hygiene
• Native peoples > Canada > Social conditions
• Autochtones > Canada > Santé et hygiène
• Autochtones > Canada > Conditions sociales
• Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Canada
• Indians, North American
• Inuit
• Health Services, Indigenous
• Community Health Services
• Canada

Note

• Issued also in French under title: Sur le chemin de la guérison.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction / Louis T. Montour -- Report from the Round Table Rapporteur / John D. O'Neil -- Discussion Papers -- Aboriginal Health Policy for the Next Century / John D. O'Neil -- Challenging the Way We Think About Health / Rosemary Proctor -- Suicide in Canadian Aboriginal Peoples: Causes and Prevention / Clare Clifton Brant -- Violence in Aboriginal Communities / Emma D. LaRocque -- Funding Policy for Indigenous Human Services / K. A. (Kim) Scott -- Deficits, Foundation, and Aspirations Signal Need for Restructuring / W.J. (Bill) Mussell -- The Treaty Right to Health / Alma Favel-King -- Aboriginal People Living in Remote and Northern Areas / Iris Allen -- Health and Social Issues of Aboriginal People with Disabilities: An Alberta Perspective / Brenda J. Sinclair -- Beyond the Caregivers: Health and Social Services Policy for the 1990s / Sharon Helin -- Pathways to a Dream: Professional Education in the Health Sciences / Dianne Longboat -- Integrating Science and Traditional Culture / Rahael Jalan -- Four Community Social Initiatives Grand Lac Victoria Community / Richard Kistabish -- Métis Child and Family Services / Carolyn Pettifer -- Alkali Lake Band / Joyce Johnson and Fred Johnson -- Atikamekw Health and Social Services / Louis Hanrahan -- Four Community Health Initiatives -- The Innuulitsivik Health Centre and its Maternity Project / Aani Tuluguk -- Anishnawbe Health / Priscilla George and Barbra Nahwegahbow -- The Kahnawake Mohawk Experience / Keith Leclaire -- The Nuu Chah Nulth Experience / Richard Watt and Simon Read -- Keynote Speakers -- Global Nutrition and the Holistic Environment of Indigenous Peoples / Harriet Kuhnlein -- Illness Care, Health, and the Economic Base / Robert Evans -- Daily Summaries of Proceedings -- Appendices -- Round Table Program Round Table Participants and Observers.

ISBN

0660151731

LCCN

^^^95231740^

OCLC

• 28673009
• SCSB-12815271

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library