Indigenous Health: Tuberculosis

Teaching Tuberculosis: A Resource Guide for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Youth
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Assembly of First Nations, 2009.  Health Bulletin (Special Issue on Tuberculosis).  http://64.26.129.156/misc/HB-June09.pdf 

Dyck, F.L., et al, 2007.  The Relationship between Diabetes and Tuberculosis in Saskatchewan: Comparison of Registered Indians and Other Saskatchewan People.  Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 55-59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41994874

FitzGerald, J.M. et al, 2000.  Tuberculosis: 13. Control of the disease among Aboriginal people in Canada.  Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 162, No. 3, pp. 351-355.  http://www.cmaj.ca/content/162/3/351.full.pdf+html

Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health.  “Tuberculosis”.  http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/diseases-maladies/tuberculos/index-eng.php

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, 2013.  “Inuit-Specific Tuberculosis Strategy.” https://www.itk.ca/publication/inuit-specific-tuberculosis-strategy

Kunimoto, D., et al, 2001.  Investigation of Tuberculosis Transmission in Canadian Arctic Inuit Communities Using DNA Fingerprinting.  The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 642-647.  

Lux, M., 1998.  Perfect Subjects: Race, Tuberculosis, and the Qu’Appelle BCG Vaccine Trial.  Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 277-295.  http://www.cbmh.ca/index.php/cbmh/issue/view/18  (Scroll down to Issue #2)

Macdonald, M.E., et al, 2010.  “Urban Aboriginal Understandings and Experiences of Tuberculosis in Montreal, Quebec, Canada”.  Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 506-523.  http://qhr.sagepub.com/content/20/4/506

Orr, P.  “Adherence to Tuberculosis Care in Canadian Aboriginal Populations. Part 2:A comprehensive Approach to Fostering Adherent Behaviour”.  International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 128-140.  

Grant, J. M., 2011.  The Determinants of Tuberculosis Transmission in Indigenous People in Canada and New Zealand.  M.Sc., Community Health & Epidemiology, U Saskaskatchewan.  http://ecommons.usask.ca/bitstream/handle/10388/etd-06202011-221741/JessicaGrantMScThesis2011.pdf

McLeod, L.A., 2007.  Characteristics of Tuberculosis in Aboriginal Populations: Is there a Difference in Rates by Residence (On or Off Reserve)?  M.Sc., Community Health & Epidemiology, U Saskaskatchewan.  http://ecommons.usask.ca/bitstream/handle/10388/etd-08222007-114921/FinalThesis2007.pdf

Ward, H.A., 2004.  Risk Factors in the Progression from Tuberculosis Infection to Disease.  M.Sc., Community Health & Epidemiology, U Saskaskatchewan.  http://ecommons.usask.ca/handle/10388/etd-01052005-154335

Meijer-Drees, L., 2013.  Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals.  Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 244 pages.

Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health, Tuberculosis Videos:  http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/diseases- maladies/tuberculos/video-eng.php