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Living well

15 Jun 2004

The report includes a review and analysis of current research relevant to Aboriginal women’s identity and wellness, and presents the results of group discussions and individual interviews with Aboriginal women in Manitoba that focused on their personal experiences and understandings of the relationship between identity and wellness. [...] Health care practitioners, providers and policy makers, as well as federal and provincial governments, need to assist Aboriginal communities in the development of the infrastructure, human resources and administrative structures needed to create and control health care services that are rooted in the cultural practices and values of the Aboriginal women and men they are serving. [...] It includes a review and prevailed in most of the province’s analysis of current research relevant to health care institutions: “Aboriginal Aboriginal women’s identity and concepts of health and healing start from wellness, and presents the results of the position that all elements of life and group discussions and individual living are interdependent. [...] The project reflects PWHCE’s increasingly aware of the inseparability commitment (as part of the Centres of of cultural identity and health and Excellence for Women’s Health) to wellness and attempting to bring a more “identify and track positive health traditional holistic understanding of indicators, including resiliency, health and wellness to their institutional spirituality, everyday health s [...] The First Nation women are more likely than report includes a review of the health men to make health-promoting changes history of Aboriginal people in Canada and advocates that health promotion and considers the effect that colonization incorporate a “multidimensional has had on the health and well-being of approach to advance a balanced way of Aboriginal women.
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Authors

Wilson, Alex

ISBN
9780973504835
Pages
38
Published in
Canada

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