http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project First Nation Albertan Perspectives on Health and Wellness Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Renae Morriseau's excellent comment begins to touch on the complexity of the First Nations experience with health and wellness. The diversity of issues here is somewhat staggering, and I invite you, our blog readers, to help me begin to define the breadth and scope of what we're looking at. These issues ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=41 Photography as a discipline emerged at an historical moment that witnessed the birth of what French situationist Guy Debord called "the society of the spectacle." This phrase refers to an evolution of capitalism characterized by a commodity culture simultaneously privileging image, display and visuality (Abigail Solomon-Godeau 1992). Noted American photography ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=40 http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=38 Culture and ethnicity affect health and wellness by influencing how people link with the health care system, their access to health information, and their lifestyle choices. Culture and ethnicity are products of both personal history and wider situational, social, political, geographic, and economic factors. Culture and ethnicity are important in ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=37 Saturday, June 7, 2008 http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=24 Medical care and social services are a fundamental part of any community.  One practical way to promote health and wellness is to support a medical establishment that understands and appreciates the needs of the community it serves. This can be achieved by facilitating education and opportunities for individuals to work within their own communities to ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=15 Healthy communities stay fit, like individuals stay fit, not through exercise, but through dialogue. All communities have commonalities that bind them, but inside the commonalities are groups that set themselves apart. When these groups plan the future together, they promote a healthy environment of mutual investment where all stakeholders have a ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=14 Close your eyes and imagine a healthy community. What do you see? I see happy families, good friends, strong houses, safe neighborhoods, great schools, honest government, diversity, democracy, fresh air, clean water, good food, books, wine, the beach. I see creativity, humor, peace, and above all, I see love. What do you see? http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=13 com·mu·ni·ty– noun, plural –ties 1. a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. 2. a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=12 To answer the question or to even to explore the question what constitutes a healthy community, one must first distinguish that as individuals we not always a part of just one community; we are part of several. As a young Caucasian male my school, home, workplace they are all separate communities ... http://www.goodmedicine.acadnet.ca/project/?p=10