Source: Yukon Hospitals
Year: 2016
This video shows traditional food and medicine at Yukon Hospitals through First Nations Health Programs.
Bringing Reconciliation to Healthcare in Canada: Wise Practices for Healthcare Leaders
Source: Dr. Lisa Richardson, Tracy Murphy; HealthCareCAN
Year: 2018
This HealthCareCAN Report discusses critical issues facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the role that Canadian health leaders play in helping to close the health gap. It also presents wise practices for health leaders and organizations to address the health-related Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) based on a literature review, interviews with key stakeholders, and case studies of several health care organizations. The term “wise practices” is widely used in Indigenous contexts to describe locally appropriate Indigenous actions that contribute to sustainable and equitable conditions.
Indigenous Health Values and Principles Statement
Source: Indigenous Health Writing Group at the Royal College of Physicians
Year: 2019
Racism is unacceptable in medical education and practice. The Indigenous health values and principles statement was created to complement anti-racism teachings. It was first introduced on July 4, 2013. Its purpose is to articulate clear and concise Indigenous health ideals and beliefs to guide the Royal College in advancing Indigenous health. The work was informed from extensive consultations with the Indigenous Health Committee of the Royal College members, key informant interviews with Indigenous stakeholders, and health care educators and organizations.
Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952
Source: Ian Mosby
Year: 2013
Between 1942 and 1952, some of Canada’s leading nutrition experts, in cooperation with various federal departments, conducted an unprecedented series of nutritional studies of Aboriginal communities and residential schools. The most ambitious and perhaps best known of these was the 1947-1948 James Bay Survey of the Attawapiskat and Rupert’s House Cree First Nations. Less well known were two separate long-term studies that went so far as to include controlled experiments conducted, apparently without the subjects’ informed consent or knowledge, on malnourished Aboriginal populations in Northern Manitoba and, later, in six Indian residential schools. This article explores these studies and experiments, in part to provide a narrative record of a largely unexamined episode of exploitation and neglect by the Canadian government.
Exploring First Nation Elder Women’s Relationships with Food from Social, Ecological, and Historical Perspectives
Authors: Hannah Tait Neufeld, Chantelle Richmond, and The Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre
Year: 2020
The ongoing negative health effects of colonization have disproportionately affected Indigenous women, who are disproportionately affected by diabetes, food insecurity, and undernutrition. Indigenous women also perceive their health less positively than men do. This article draws theoretically from the socio-ecological model to explore health inequalities experienced by Indigenous women associated with the intergenerational effects of the residential school legacy, specifically related to food practices.
Why bringing traditional food into Haida Gwaii hospitals and schools matters
Source: National Observer
Date: Feb 2021
A story about her father and his hatred of beets continues to remind Elizabeth Moore why bringing traditional food and teaching to her home of Haida Gwaii is so important.
Nourishing the Future of Food in Health Care: A Pan-Canadian Policy Scan 2018
Source: Nourish
Date: 2018
Nourish conducted a pan-Canadian scan and create an inventory of existing health, agriculture and procurement policies that guide food in health care settings in order to better identify opportunities for policy innovation that can help shift hospitals and other care centres toward more healthy, delicious, local, sustainable and cultural food. This report aims to highlight policy gaps and opportunities before us.
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Nourish Infographic: Opportunities for Food in Health Care
Source: Nourish
Year: 2018
Nourish and its collaborators have launched new infographic, The Opportunities for Food in Health Care, to illustrate how food choices can enhance the patient experience, support organizational results and efficiencies, and contribute to community wellbeing.
Room Service Improves Nutritional Intake and Increases Patient Satisfaction While Decreasing Food Waste and Cost.
Source: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Year: 2017
A comprehensive evaluation of a room service model at an Australian acute care facility showed results of increased energy and protein intake, decreased food waste to 12% and meal costs by 15%, and increased patient satisfaction.
Plow to Plate: The Community Hospital as Change Agent
Source: New Milford Hospital, Connecticut
Year: 2012
Plow to Plate is a program that advocates healthy food as a direct path to disease prevention while promoting the local agricultural economy. It delivers a fully integrated, healthful food service program to patients, staff and the community, using fresh produce from local farms and shows results with increased patient satisfaction scores.
Hospital Food - An opinion piece
Source: Flavour Journal
Year: 2017
This opinion piece takes a critical look at the current state of hospital food, with a focus on the UK’s National Health Service, and explores how findings from studies of high-end gastrophysics research could help to improve it. For example, ‘Eye appeal really is half the meal’, even in hospital. A number of concrete recommendations and low-cost solutions are proposed.