Humanizing Indigenous Peoples’ engagement in health care

Indigenous-led health care partnerships in Canada

“…41 Given that the available evidence of improved health out comes of Indigenousled medical partnerships remains limited, future research, such as scoping or systematic reviews informed by holistic (inclusive of mind, body, emotion and spirit) frame works, are needed to better measure and assess partnership efficacy in Canada and globally. Being mandated by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as a standard for Indigen ous health research and ethics since 2011, 42,43 Etuaptmumk, or a "twoeyed seeing" framework, in which health practitioners and researchers are called to operate through both Western (one eye) and traditional Indigenous knowledge (another eye), could be a useful approach for future practice, partnership and evidencebased research that aims to readjust power imbal ances and involve traditional Indigenous knowledge, including its holistic values and frameworks, modes of operation and standards of efficacy. *In this analysis, we reviewed qualitative, quantitative and mixedmethods research.…”

Communities take the lead: exploring Indigenous health research practices through Two-Eyed Seeing & kinship

“…This is an essential foundational lesson to learn. These cultural teachings are embedded as L'nuwey perspectives or principles in humanising Indigenous Peoples' engagement in healthcare using E/TES [16,17]. Researchers are trained in a western, colonial system that typically places the researcher in control of the knowledge they gather through their research, gaining benefit via grant awards, publications and presentations.…”

“…Knowledge gathered continues to be translated, or "gardened" [14], into training content and curricula for post-secondary health sciences students and online learning modules for Nova Scotia clinicians. Interwoven in this training are the Seven Sacred Teachings, which enhance the patient-engagement process [16] and community recommendations into what non-Indigenous clinicians should know about Indigenous patients. Some of those community recommendations are shared in manuscript currently under review [34] and in the short CPN ACHH documentary titled "Shift Ground through Art: Safe Approaches to Share & Manage Pain " https://youtu.be/C8KMb_9TNcM.…”

Co‐creating better healthcare experiences for First Nations children and youth: The FIRST approach emerges from Two‐Eyed seeing

“…Indigenous knowledge of health and well‐being, amassed over thousands of years, shared from its perspectives, can significantly enhance Western‐based healthcare practices using a Two‐Eyed s eeing approach. Two‐Eyed s eeing invokes two sets of eyes representing the convergence of perspectives to address contemporary issues in health 1 . Implementing this approach is anticipated to improve healthcare experiences for Indigenous people who live with pain and hurt.…”