HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Health Promotion, Harm Reduction, Pediatrics
Document Summary
Week # 9: in search of a healing place: aboriginal women in vancouver"s downtown east side by. Aboriginal people face formidable barriers in accessing culturally appropriate and timely care. Urban aboriginal health centres (uahcs) have emerged to address the unmet health concerns of. Purpose of research: address gap of how health care concerns of aw are bing unmet by uahcs. Case study approach with 4 focus groups of aboriginal women (vancouver native health society, Sheway and residents of vancouver s downtown east side (dtes) 25 semistructred interviews were conducted with vnhs staff, health providers, government representatives, and community leaders in health care. Aboriginal women have expressed a strong desire for a healing place, an integrated health centre that serves to address their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs, incorporates both. 1. 1 million people claimed aboriginal ancestry in 1996 approximately 4018,100 are women. Aboriginals are more likely to live in single parent families, have higher rates of.
