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Indigenous patient navigator grant program : grant recipients

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Lists recipients of the Indigenous Patient Navigator Grant Program. The Navigator Program provides financial support to First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous serving organizations to recruit... More ≫

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Lists recipients of the Indigenous Patient Navigator Grant Program. The Navigator Program provides financial support to First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous serving organizations to recruit and retain navigators to help patients overcome barriers accessing primary health care services across multiple service providers, support patient advocacy, gain access to resources, and improve care coordination.

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Indigenous primary health care innovation fund : grant recipients

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Lists recipients of the Indigenous Primary Health Care Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund provides funding to support Indigenous communities and organizations in pursuing priorities based upon... More ≫

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Lists recipients of the Indigenous Primary Health Care Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund provides funding to support Indigenous communities and organizations in pursuing priorities based upon their unique primary health care needs. The intent is to lay a solid foundation for the delivery of accessible, relevant, high-quality, and culturally-safe primary health care led by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Alberta.

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Indigenous primary health care innovation fund : guidebook for Indigenous communities

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This guide provides information to assist Indigenous applicants to prepare and submit their grant applications for the Indigenous Primary Health Care Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund provides... More ≫

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This guide provides information to assist Indigenous applicants to prepare and submit their grant applications for the Indigenous Primary Health Care Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund provides funding to support Indigenous communities and organizations in pursuing priorities based upon their unique primary health care needs. The intent is to lay a solid foundation for the delivery of accessible, relevant, high-quality, and culturally-safe primary health care led by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples in Alberta.

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Indigenous patient navigator grant program : guidebook for Indigenous communities and organizations

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This guide provides information to assist Indigenous applicants to prepare and submit applications for funding through the Indigenous Patient Navigator Program, and outlines a transparent process... More ≫

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This guide provides information to assist Indigenous applicants to prepare and submit applications for funding through the Indigenous Patient Navigator Program, and outlines a transparent process for the review, and selection of successful grant recipients. The Navigator Program is intended to provide financial support to First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous serving organizations to recruit and retain navigators to help patients overcome barriers accessing primary health care services across multiple service providers, support patient advocacy, gain access to resources, and improve care coordination.

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Swan Hills Treatment Center: PCBs and PCDD/F in wild game and fish tissue (1999-2014)

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The Swan Hills Treatment Centre (SHTC) is a facility for the safe disposal of special wastes located approximately 12 km northeast of the town of Swan Hills, AB. On October 16, 1996, a malfunction... More ≫

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The Swan Hills Treatment Centre (SHTC) is a facility for the safe disposal of special wastes located approximately 12 km northeast of the town of Swan Hills, AB. On October 16, 1996, a malfunction of a transformer furnace was discovered to have caused the release of a portion of process gases containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) into the ambient air. These chemicals can be harmful to human health. Therefore, in 1997 Alberta Health (AH) conducted a human health risk assessment study to estimate human exposure and to evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions. As a result of the study, food consumption advice for wild game and fish taken within a 30 km radius of the facility were issued out of concern that PCBs and PCDD/Fs were accumulating in these locally caught foods. A long-term environmental monitoring and human exposure assessment program has been ongoing since 1998 to monitor concentrations of...

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2019 fish consumption guidance : mercury in fish

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This technical report was prepared to provide summary information about the fish consumption advice available for Alberta water bodies and to present new data collected from 2013 to 2016... More ≫

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This technical report was prepared to provide summary information about the fish consumption advice available for Alberta water bodies and to present new data collected from 2013 to 2016 (inclusive) along with attendant advice. The information in this report may be of interest to researchers, public health professionals, or members of the public who are interested in fish consumption advice in Alberta and want additional information. This document has been produced using methods described in past reports – as such, the information contained herein is a summary of available data related to mercury in fish and human health advice.

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