Setting the Context

• Exploring Evidence in Aboriginal Health
  • a short narrative report accompanying our DVD: 'Dialogue Circle: Ways of Knowing.' Looking through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge, participants in an NCCAH-hosted 'dialogue circle' in Vancouver B.C. explore what constitutes 'evidence' in Aboriginal health.
• Landscapes of Indigenous Health
• a 2007 NCCAH-commissioned environmental scan of the current work performed in the field of Aboriginal Peoples' health in Canada (122 pages). Now being updated for 2010.
  

Child and Youth

• Aboriginal children's health: Leaving no child behind - Canadian Supplement to the State of the World's Children 2009
• Our joint UNICEF Canada/NCCAH report finds that the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children in Canada falls well below national averages. This widely disseminated document concluded that the health gap is one of the most significant children's rights issues facing the country.
• Messages from the Heart
• a short narrative report of the NCCAH-hosted 'Showcase on Aboriginal Childrearing' event in Ottawa, 2009, which highlighted programs and practices that are helping to support Aboriginal parents and caregivers.
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Aboriginal People: A Review of Prevalence. Full Report. Two Page Summary
• Our first report, released in 2009, concludes that the true extent of FAS and FASD in Aboriginal populations is not known, despite a widespread perception that the disorders are more prevalent in Canadian Aboriginal children than among non-Aboriginal children.
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome & Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Aboriginal Canadians: Knowledge Gaps
• Our newly released second report on this issue highlights broad research knowledge gaps in three key areas, particularly in relation to Aboriginal-specific studies, and helps initiate dialgoue about the priority of future research directions.
• Supporting Aboriginal Parents: Teachings for the Future
• a strengths-based sumary and review of reports and literature on Aboriginal parenting practices. Released in 2009 at the NCCAH-hosted national 'Showcase on Aboriginal Childrearing - Messages from the Heart: Caring for our children and Families,' the report examines both traditional and contemporary forces on Aboriginal parenting to shed light on how to improve programs and services.
• Systematic Review of Community-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with ADHD and Their Families
• ADHD is a condition that is often co-morbid in Aboriginal children diagnosed with FASD. There is currently little information concerning effective FASD-specific interventions. This NCCAH-supported report, released in 2010, reviews literature related to interventions for children and youth living with ADHD. The report's findings may be adapted to support Aboriginal children and adolescents diagnosed with FASD.
• A Framework for Indigenous School Health: Foundations in Cultural Principles
• This internationally recognized collaborative report with the Canadian Council on Learning - Knowledge Centre on Aboriginal Learning, and the Canadian Association for School Health, provides a framework for resdesigning school-based health programs to better meet the needs of Indigenous children and communities. The framework is based on 'five strong threads' that shape Aboriginal world views, as identified through international collaborations among Indigenous practitioners. The framework will be presented at an international health promotion conference in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2010.

Social Determinants

• Health Inequalities and the Social Determinants Aboriginal Peoples' Health
• Authors Charlotte Loppie Reading, PhD, and Fred Wien, PhD, use available data to describe health inequalities experienced by diverse Aboriginal peoples in Canada, linking social determinants to health inequalities. Many of these determinants, such as poverty, substandard housing, and barriers to education, are rooted in contexts specific to Indigenous peoples, including a history of colonization impacting culture, languages, land rights and self-determination. The authors present a conceptual framework for understanding social determinants across the lifespan, and note that complex interactions between social determinants and health are just starting to be mapped out and demonstrated empirically by researchers.
• Red Moon Dialogues
• a short narrative report of the inaugural NCCAH Forum with National Aboriginal Organizations on the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, held in Ottawa in 2008.
• From Visions to Actions: Second Forum on Social Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples' Health
• a short narrative report of our second national forum, held in Vancouver BC in 2009, helping identify how sectors within and beyond health can support an integrated approach to supporting the optimal health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.
• PopHealth Notes, Issue 4: "Aboriginal Youth and Social Inequalities in Health"
• This November 2008 edition of PopHealth Notes was a collaboration of the Institut National de santé publique du Québec and the NCCAH

Emerging Priorities

• Aboriginal Environmental Health Issues: Researchers' and Decision-Makers' Perceptions of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Processes
• Environmental health policies are often the result of highly political processes, with varied impacts on communities, regions and interests. This newly released, NCCAH-supported report by a team of scholars sheds light on Canadian Aboriginal environmental health processes and makes recommendations to support improved sharing of information and knowledge. The report highlights the need to incorporate Traditional Knowledge in decision-making processes, and finds that relationships among researchers, communities and decision-makers must be based on trust, respect, empowerment and equity.