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Welcome to the winter 2014 newsletter updating you on the activities and new resources of the NCCAH.
Over the past several months, the NCCAH has participated in a number of local, national and international conferences and events. These gatherings allow us to hear about the health priorities from other regions. They also provide us with important face-to-face opportunities to share our knowledge and strengthen our national and international networks in Aboriginal public health.
We were pleased to release the Landscapes of First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis Health: An Environmental Scan of Organizations, Literature and Research, 3rd Edition report. This publication set out to review the current knowledge production on First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis health and health priorities in Canada.
In addition to updating our activities and resources, you will find a listing of other resources and upcoming events relevant to First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis peoples' health in this newsletter. I hope you enjoy and share our newsletter, visit the online links, and join us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Linkedin to participate in updates as they happen!
On behalf of all of us at the NCCAH, I wish you and your loved ones a safe and joy-filled season.
Meegwetch
Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
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NCCAH Centre News
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Fireside Chat with NCCAH & NCCDH
As part of our knowledge sharing activities we co-hosted a webinar with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) entitled, "Indigenous self-determination: implications for public health action on the social determinants of health". Presenters Dr. Charlotte Loppie (Reading) and Dr. Cory Neudorf engaged over seventy on-line participants and over ninety telephone participants from across Canada in this discussion.
To review the PowerPoint presentation, the discussion notes or listen to the audio file please visit CHNET-WORKS Fireside Chat #427. We will continue on-line forums and dialogues such as this in the coming months.
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Our publications on display at the Indigenous Health Conference.
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Attended Events
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Upcoming Events
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Knowledge Exchange and Exploration: A Gathering for Aboriginal and Academic Communities
Prince George, British Columbia, October 16-18, 2014. Conference web site link
2014 CAHR Learning Institute Victoria, British Columbia, November 3-7, 2014. Conference web site link
BCACCS 17th Annual Provincial Training Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, November 7-9, 2014. Conference web site link
Indigenous Health Conference Toronto, Ontario, November 20-21, 2014. Conference web site link
2014 World Indigenous Health Conference Cairns, Queensland, Australia, December 15 - 17, 2014. Conference web site link
Please visit the online NCCAH calendar of events, which highlights conferences, workshops, and other events of interest in the field of Aboriginal Health including regional, national and global listings. |
2015 Annual Conference Best Start Resource Centre
Toronto, Ontario, February 25-27, 2015. Conference web site link
Territorial Wellness Gathering Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, March 3-5, 2015
The 6th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Vancouver, British Columbia, March 4-7, 2015. Conference web site link
Gathering our Voices 2015 Prince George, British Columbia, March 17 - 20, 2015. Conference web site link
The International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health (IMICH) Ottawa, Ontario, March 20-22, 2015. Conference web site link
Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Calendar Submission" in the subject line if you have an event you would like added to our calendar. |
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New NCCAH publications
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The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) is pleased to present Landscapes of First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis Health: An Environmental Scan of Organizations, Literature and Research, 3rd Edition. Similar to previous environmental scans produced by the NCCAH in 2006 and 2010, this publication sets out to review the current knowledge production on First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis health and health priorities in Canada. The Landscapes 3rd Edition report includes:
- information on 31 national organizations working in First Nations, Inuit, and/or M�tis public health through to the end of 2012;
- an analysis of relevant literature, including 1939 peer-reviewed and 379 non-peer-reviewed publications, published between January 2010 and December 2012; and
- a review of the CIHR Funded Decisions Database, detailing 416 research projects funded by the institutes during the fiscal years 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13.
(Read the full web story)
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Landscapes of First Nations, Inuit, and M�tis Health: An Environmental Scan of Organizations, Literature and Research, 3rd Edition
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Journal Articles
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NCCAH staff journal articles
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NCCAH Academic Lead Dr. Margo Greenwood and research associate Sarah de Leeuw have contributed articles to the journals Human Development, Settler Colonial Studies, Canadian Family Physician and Cultural Geographies.
Greenwood, M. (2013). Being Indigenous: Commentary on Chandler. Human Development, 56: 98-105.
de Leeuw, S., Greenwood, M., & Lindsay, N. (2013). Troubling good intentions. Settler Colonial Studies, 3(3): 388-401.
de Leeuw, S. (2014). Telling stories about stories - Commentary. Canadian Family Physician, 60(1): 65-67.
de Leeuw, S. (2014). State of care: The ontologies of child welfare in British Columbia. Cultural Geographies, 21(1): 59-78.
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Online Resources
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In support of creating a health community focused on knowledge synthesis, transfer and exchange we have chosen a sampling of current online resources to share. Please note the links provided in the NCCAH newsletters are for general interest only and do not indicate an endorsement. The views expressed in the linked resources do not necessarily represent the views of the NCCAH or our funder the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Online Resource" in the subject line if you have an online resource or newsletter you would like added to our Spring 2015 newsletter edition.
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Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters
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On December 10, 2014, the anthology Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters, edited by award winning author Joseph Boyden, was released. Over fifty celebrated writers, musicians, artists, and activists, the likes of Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, Lee Maracle, John Ralston Saul, and Tanya Tagaq Gillis, contributed to this anthology in order to bring awareness to violence against Indigenous women in Canada. The NCCAH's research associate, Sarah de Leeuw, contributed a chapter titled, "1CountryBoy". This is an exerpt from her longer non-fiction work which is part of a forthcoming collection of essays,"Where it Hurts", about murdered and missing Aboriginal women in Northern British Columbia (2016/17, NeWest Press).
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Online Multimedia
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This section features infographics, interactives, apps or videos that we found interesting or educational. Send us an email if you have multimedia resources you would like included in our next newsletter to nccah@unbc.ca with "Multimedia Submission" in the subject line.
This infographic features Indigenous health values and principles as interpreted through the CanMEDS framework with the defined learning objective as understanding Indigenous health values and how to apply principles that can help shape cultural safety in medical education and practice.
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Infographic: Examining Cultural Safety
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