Indigenous Health Challenges

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tailfeathers, Esther

• Dr. Esther Tailfeathers works as a physician with Alberta Health Services in both Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta and Blood (Kainai) Indian Reserve in southern Alberta. Dr Tailfeathers speaks about the state of the health of Indigenous people in Alberta. She also addressed the determinants of health (rates of education, poverty, adverse childhood experiences, inter- generational trauma), as well as resiliency and cultural identity as protective factors

• Date created

  2017-10-27

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Fentanyl abuse
  • Opoid crisis - Indigenous people - Alberta

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3M32NQ5X

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International