{"id":1324,"date":"2009-11-18T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:05:09","slug":"centre-for-aboriginal-health-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/11\/18\/centre-for-aboriginal-health-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for Aboriginal Health Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1325\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/files\/2009\/11\/menu_r1_c1.gif\" alt=\"menu_r1_c1\" width=\"145\" height=\"135\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/centres\/cahr\/about\/about_intro.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Centre for Aboriginal Health Research<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (CAHR) coordinates research activities to help First Nations and Aboriginal communities to encourage and promote healthy lifestyles and improved health services.\u00a0 A joint initiative of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and the Foundations of Health, the CAHR works towards integrating scientific and traditional Aboriginal knowledge and approaches to work towards producing new knowledge about health and health care.<\/p>\n<p>The symbol of the turtle logo represents a creation story which is appropriate for the Center\u2019s goal to create new knowledge that encompasses Aboriginal cultural and social realities.\u00a0 The arrows represent the taking in and giving back of information, the medicine wheel, and the four directions represent the four races on earth, stages of life and the physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological realms of health.<\/p>\n<p>Objectives of the CAHR are:<\/p>\n<p>To support and conduct studies related to traditional healing, prevalent diseases, culture-based approaches to healing, factors that influence health service systems, and addresses gender and age related needs within the First Nations and Aboriginal communities.<\/p>\n<p>To provide community education and training in health research, to facilitate the use of health information and policy development, to advice First Nations and Aboriginal governments on health policy issues.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Links include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/centres\/cahr\/cahr-research\/present_research\/presentresearch.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Present Research<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/centres\/cahr\/cahr-research\/past_research\/pastresearch.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Past Research<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/centres\/cahr\/cahr-research\/research_publications\/research_publications_reports.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Publications and Reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manitobachiefs.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/www.manitobachiefs.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Wilde, D. (designer) AHR Logo, (online image) \u00a0Retrieved November 17, 2009 \u00a0from CAHR website. http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/centres\/cahr\/about\/background.html<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (CAHR) coordinates research activities to help First Nations and Aboriginal communities to encourage and promote healthy lifestyles and improved health services.\u00a0 A joint initiative of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and the Foundations of Health, the CAHR works towards integrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[649,1814,6505,364],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-aboriginal","tag-health","tag-health-services","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}