Healing traditions: Culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Kirmayer, Laurence ^a,b   Simpson, Cori ^c   Cargo, Margaret ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; First Nations; Health promotion; Inuit; Metis; Residential schools; Trauma; Youth

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESKIMO; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION;

EID: 3142757766     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1038-5282.2003.02010.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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