scholarly journals Beyond land: Indigenous health and self-determination in an age of urbanisation

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
Maria John
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Self Determination

scholarly journals Colonialism as a Broader Social Determinant of Health

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Czyzewski
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
Social Determinant Of Health

A proposed broader or Indigenized social determinants of health framework includes "colonialism" along with other global processes. What does it mean to understand Canadian colonialism as a distal determinant of Indigenous health? This paper reviews pertinent discourses surrounding Indigenous mental health in Canada. With an emphasis on the notion of intergenerational trauma, there are real health effects of social, political, and economic marginalization embodied within individuals, which can collectively affect entire communities. Colonialism can also be enacted and reinforced within Indigenous mental health discourse, thus influencing scholarly and popular perceptions. Addressing this distal determinant through policy work necessitates that improving Indigenous health is inherently related to improving these relationships, i.e. eliminating colonial relations, and increasing self-determination.

Addressing Strengths and Disparities in Indigenous Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Suzanne Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Model Of Care ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Clinical Environments

As an Indigenous person, I came into the world of Indigenous health scholarship in the 1990s with a personal view that focused on the strength and solutions of our peoples and our cultures. Over the next two decades in research and clinical environments, I observed how biomedicine remained firmly entrenched as the dominant model of care for Indigenous individuals and communities, with traditional knowledges and medicines as an aside or non- existent entirely. I have built my life’s work as a researcher and clinician in centering Indigenous knowledges and healing in both research and health care. Yet today in 2020, biomedicine and Western academic research still dismiss Indigenous knowledges and remain mostly in command of Indigenous health. There are wonderful pockets of Indigenous researchers and practitioners, supported by Indigenous communities that continue to have very little real autonomy or self- determination from colonialism, who are making a difference in Indigenous health by reducing health disparities, using our strengths such as culture, spirituality, medicines, the land, Elders, youth, and more. This issue highlights some of the work by researchers that are making a strong impact on Indigenous health, uplifting our communities.

Self-determination and Indigenous health

The Lancet ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 396 (10248) ◽  
pp. 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Lancet
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Self Determination

Reclaiming Indigenous Health Research and Knowledges As Self-Determination in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Carrie Bourassa ◽  
Danette Starblanket ◽  
Mikayla Hagel ◽  
Marlin Legare ◽  
Miranda Keewatin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Self Determination

scholarly journals Colonial Trauma: Complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding effects on the health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Right ◽  
Disproportionate Burden ◽  
Right Of Self Determination

Indigenous peoples across the globe suffer a disproportionate burden of both mental and physical illness relative to Settler populations. A substantial body of research indicates that colonialism and its associated processes are important determinants of Indigenous peoples' health. In Canada, despite an abundance of health research documenting inequalities in morbidity and mortality rates for Indigenous peoples, relatively little research has focused on the political, historical, cultural basis of health disparities. This paper advances a theory of colonial trauma as a conceptual framework with which to understand Indigenous health and mental health disparities. Colonial Trauma is described as a complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding interaction of impacts related to the imposition of colonial policies and practices which continue to separate Indigenous Peoples from their land, languages, cultural practices, and one another. The theory of colonial trauma is presented as useful a framework for understanding the links between persistent health disparities, the traumagenic nature of colonialism and the right of self-determination.

scholarly journals How is Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing characterized in Indigenous health research? A scoping review

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254612
Author(s):  
Sophie I. G. Roher ◽  
Ziwa Yu ◽  
Debbie H. Martin ◽  
Anita C. Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Learning Journey ◽  
Greater Good

Our scoping review sought to consider how Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing is described in Indigenous health research and to compare descriptions of Two-Eyed Seeing between original authors (Elders Albert and Murdena Marshall, and Dr. Cheryl Bartlett) and new authors. Using the JBI scoping review methodology and qualitative thematic coding, we identified seven categories describing the meaning of Two-Eyed Seeing from 80 articles: guide for life, responsibility for the greater good and future generations, co-learning journey, multiple or diverse perspectives, spirit, decolonization and self-determination, and humans being part of ecosystems. We discuss inconsistencies between the original and new authors, important observations across the thematic categories, and our reflections from the review process. We intend to contribute to a wider dialogue about how Two-Eyed Seeing is understood in Indigenous health research and to encourage thoughtful and rich descriptions of the guiding principle.

Frustration and Violence in Mobile Video Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Petr Květon ◽  
Martin Jelínek
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Mobile Video ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Before And After

Abstract. This study tests two competing hypotheses, one based on the general aggression model (GAM), the other on the self-determination theory (SDT). GAM suggests that the crucial factor in video games leading to increased aggressiveness is their violent content; SDT contends that gaming is associated with aggression because of the frustration of basic psychological needs. We used a 2×2 between-subject experimental design with a sample of 128 undergraduates. We assigned each participant randomly to one experimental condition defined by a particular video game, using four mobile video games differing in the degree of violence and in the level of their frustration-invoking gameplay. Aggressiveness was measured using the implicit association test (IAT), administered before and after the playing of a video game. We found no evidence of an association between implicit aggressiveness and violent content or frustrating gameplay.

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