Turning around the intergenerational impact of residential schools on aboriginal people: Implications for health policy and practice

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 38-60

  Smith, Dawn ^a   Varcoe, Colleen ^b   Edwards, Nancy ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c School of Nursing   (United States)

^d CITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal people; Health impact; Population health; Pregnancy and parenting; Residential schools

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COMPENSATION; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHOOL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COLONIALISM; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENTS; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC HOUSING; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL VALUES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 31044438760     PISSN: 08445621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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