Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Health and Health Care in Northern Canada -- Section I: Social and Ecological Dimensions of Health and Wellness in the North -- Introduction -- 1 Education and Health: Education as a Social Determinant of Health for Inuit in Nunavut -- 2 Food and Health: Food Security, Food Systems, and Health in Northern Canada -- 3 Housing and Health: Housing and Health Challenges in Rural and Remote Communities -- 4 Determinants of Infectious Diseases: Agent, Host, and Environmental Factors in Infectious Diseases -- 5 Women's Health: What Does It Mean to "Be Well"? A Qualitative Case Study to Explore Inuit Women's Conceptions of Wellness -- 6 Assessing the Health Impacts of a Mine: Attending to the Prevailing Epistemology and Erasure of Indigenous Peoples' Well-Being -- Section II: Health Care in Northern Canada -- Introduction -- 7 Recruitment and Retention of Physicians: Physician Supply and Sufciency -- 8 Nursing in the North: Recruitment and Retention of Nurses -- 9 Maternal Health Care: Maternal Health in Manitoba Northern First Nations Communities – Challenges, Barriers, and Solutions -- 10 Elder Health and Long-Term Care: Northern Indigenous Elders and Long-Term-Care Services -- 11 Mental Health and Addictions Care: A Path towards Mental Health Care with Northern Indigenous Peoples -- 12 Climate Change and Health: Remote Northern Community Health Service Provision in a Rapidly Changing Climate -- 13 Suicide Prevention: A Sociocultural Approach to Understanding Suicide among Inuit – Issues and Prevention Strategies -- Section III: New Directions – Innovation, Collaboration, and Resilience -- Introduction -- 14 Youth Resilience: Resilience among Indigenous Youth in Northern Canada -- 15 Innovation for Northern Mental Health and Addiction Services: Indigenous Frameworks -- 16 Te Evolving Role of Telehealth: From Tackle Box Emergency Kits to Telemedicine -- 17 Cultural Safety Training and Education for Health Care Providers: Unsettling Health Care with Inuit in Canada -- 18 Integrating Traditional Healing and Northern Health Care: Indigenous Conceptions of Living Well -- 19 Health and Health Care Research Ethics: Health Research Ethics in Northern Canada -- 20 Patchy and Southern Centric: Rewriting Health Policies for Northern and Indigenous Canadians -- Conclusions: Achieving Health Equity in Northern Canada -- List of Contributors -- Index