Vulnerable Populations

Murphy, K., Branje, K., White, T., Cunsolo, A., Latimer, M., McMillan, J., Sylliboy, J. R., McKibbon, S., & Martin, D. (2021). Are we walking the talk of participatory Indigenous health research? A scoping review of the literature in Atlantic Canada. PLoS ONE, 16(7), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255265

Noronha, N., Avarino, A., Balakumar, S., Toy, K., Smith, S., Wekerle, C., Martin-Hill, D., Lookinghorse, M., Drossos, A., Niec, A., Jacobs, B., Thomasen, K., & Lokker, C. (2022). Mental Health Mobile Applications Developed for Indigenous Communities in Canada: A Scoping Review. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 41(1), 102–106. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2022-004

This document houses the 94 calls to action to engage in truth and reconcilliation.

Government of Canada. (n.d.). Indigenous Services Canada. Retrieved from Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/indigenous-services-canada.html This website has links to Indigenous resources and programs in Canada.

Clark, B., & Preto, N. (2018). Exploring the concept of vulnerability in health care. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal, 190(11), E308–E309. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.180242 This article looks at how we define vulnerable, and how the definition of it impacts how we measure it. The author explains how ones definition of what is vulnerable impacts what we do to support those who fall in that population.

Ramsay, N., Hossain, R., Moore, M., Milo, M., & Brown, A. (2019). Health Care While Homeless: Barriers, Facilitators, and the Lived Experiences of Homeless Individuals Accessing Health Care in a Canadian Regional Municipality. Qualitative Health Research, 29(13), 1839–1849. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319829434 This qualitative study reviews first hand lived experiences of those who have bene homeless and the barriers they faced.

Russell, G., Kunin, M., Harris, M., Levesque, J. F., Descôteaux, S., Scott, C., Lewis, V., Dionne, É., Advocat, J., Dahrouge, S., Stocks, N., Spooner, C., & Haggerty, J. (2019). Improving access to primary healthcare for vulnerable populations in Australia and Canada: protocol for a mixed-method evaluation of six complex interventions. BMJ open, 9(7), e027869. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027869 This article evaluates the processes, outcomes, and scalability of organizational innovations in Canada and Australia using the IMPACT model (Innovative Models Promoting Access-to-Care Transformation)