Intro to Indigenous Health. Final Test (May 2024).

The government of Canada recognizes The First Nations, The Métis nation, and Inuit as the indigenous people.

Indigenous peoples’ concept of health and survival is both a collective and an individual intergenerational continuum encompassing a holistic perspective incorporating four distinct shared dimensions. These are:

Indigenous cultures were not affected by smallpox, measles, mumps and rubella. 

What did the Indigenous culture depend on throughout northern Canada and the prairie west for survival before colonization? 

The three models of Intercultural care are: Cultural Sensitivity, Cultural Safety, and Cultural Engagement 

Which of these is not one of the three “D”s that must be avoided when practicing Cultural Safety?

“Residential School Syndrome” is an official diagnosis in the DSM. 

Which of the following health concerns are more prevalent within the Indigenous population of Canada than the Non-Indigenous population? 

“Epistemology” means “ways of knowing or being”. It’s how we think about and interact with the world and everything in it.

The biomedical approach to health …