Rachel E Wilbur
Biographic Data
| ID | 198103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel E Wilbur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilbur |
| SIGNATURE | WILBUR R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3008-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous self-determination in mental health and wellness research in the US and Canada
“Self-determination”, recognized within North American Indigenous spaces as a political concept associated with Tribal rights to self-government over lands, resources, and programs, has drawn recent attention from health psy-ence researchers engaged with Indigenous mental health. To understand the scope of this scholarship and characterize how self-determination terminology functions in relation to Indigenous mental health, we conducted a scoping…
It Makes My Heart Smile When I Hear Them Say, ‘Hi Grandpa, We’re Home!’”
Before colonization, Indigenous child protection looked like an interdependent community. Indigenous knowledges and relational actions kept all within its fold safe and well. Colonial dispossession of land, degradation of subsistence rights, boarding schools, ongoing child removal, capitalism, and systems of oppression attempted to disconnect Indigenous peoples from their language, lands, ceremonial practices, stories, dances, songs, family, comm…
Health survivance
Behavioral health inequity for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs), stemming distally from histories of colonization and continual subjugation, is a challenge that has largely evaded mainstream psychological solutions. Eurocentric psychology conceptualizes the contemporary AI/AN behavioral health environment in terms of compounded trauma balanced at times by remarkable instances of resilience. Decolonized approaches to psychology require…
The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities
Evaluating the relationship between structural racism and health inequity is conceptually and empirically complex. This critical review of policies and events extends a previously published framework for understanding structural racism in health research across ethnoracial groups from 1400 to present. We apply this framework for Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and White groups and reflect on, c…
When I Spoke, I Spoke From the Heart”
Indigenous Peoples in Canada experience inequities in behavioral health outcomes stemming from colonial subjugation, including tacit cultural assimilation through health care. Indigenous communities assert that culturally commensurate health interventions improve wellbeing. This study, conducted with clients and staff at a First Nations behavioral health treatment program, sought to identify how respondents conceived of the therapeutic endeavor w…
Behavioral health services in Urban American Indian Health Programs
This study explores behavioral health services for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) at six Urban Indian Health Programs (UIHPs). Interviews and focus groups with clinicians and staff inquired about behavioral health treatment available, service needs, client population, and financial and staffing challenges. Resulting site profiles were created based on focused coding and integrative memoing of site visit field notes and respondent tra…
American Indian” as a Racial Category in Public Health
When public health considers the health and disease status of Indigenous people, it often does so using a racial lens. In recent decades, public health researchers have begun to acknowledge that commonly employed racial categories represent history, power dynamics, embodiment, and legacies of discrimination and racism, rather than innate biology. Even so, public health has not yet fully embraced an understanding of other components of identity fo…
Looking Back to Leap Forward
Racism is now widely recognized as a fundamental cause of health inequalities in the United States. As such, health scholars have rightly turned their attention toward examining the role of structural racism in fostering morbidity and mortality. However, to date, much of the empirical structural racism-health disparities literature limits the operationalization of structural racism to a single domain or orients the construct around a White/Black …
Tuberculosis morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School 1910-1940
ObjectiveTo determine historical disparities in tuberculosis morbidity between Native American youth attending off-reservation government boarding schools and the non-Native American population.∧ Findings are placed within the context of documented health disparities in Native American populations, with implications for modern health.MethodsAnalysis performed on available epidemiologic data from Haskell Institute in Kansas and corresponding state…
Smoke-Free Multiunit Housing Policy
The potential for cost savings exists for MUH operators who enact smoke-free policies because of decreased labor, supplies, and capital costs. Smoke-free policies may also improve the work environment of caretakers and other frontline MUH employees. These are important findings for MUH companies seeking to lower their operation costs and improve their employees' working conditions, as well as for smoke-free advocates seeking to promote policy cha…
Looking Back to Leap Forward
Racism is now widely recognized as a fundamental cause of health inequalities in the United States. As such, health scholars have rightly turned their attention toward examining the role of structural racism in fostering morbidity and mortality. However, to date, much of the empirical structural racism-health disparities literature limits the operationalization of structural racism to a single domain or orients the construct around a White/Black …
When I Spoke, I Spoke From the Heart”
Indigenous Peoples in Canada experience inequities in behavioral health outcomes stemming from colonial subjugation, including tacit cultural assimilation through health care. Indigenous communities assert that culturally commensurate health interventions improve wellbeing. This study, conducted with clients and staff at a First Nations behavioral health treatment program, sought to identify how respondents conceived of the therapeutic endeavor w…
The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities
Evaluating the relationship between structural racism and health inequity is conceptually and empirically complex. This critical review of policies and events extends a previously published framework for understanding structural racism in health research across ethnoracial groups from 1400 to present. We apply this framework for Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and White groups and reflect on, c…
American Indian” as a Racial Category in Public Health
When public health considers the health and disease status of Indigenous people, it often does so using a racial lens. In recent decades, public health researchers have begun to acknowledge that commonly employed racial categories represent history, power dynamics, embodiment, and legacies of discrimination and racism, rather than innate biology. Even so, public health has not yet fully embraced an understanding of other components of identity fo…
Smoke-Free Multiunit Housing Policy
The potential for cost savings exists for MUH operators who enact smoke-free policies because of decreased labor, supplies, and capital costs. Smoke-free policies may also improve the work environment of caretakers and other frontline MUH employees. These are important findings for MUH companies seeking to lower their operation costs and improve their employees' working conditions, as well as for smoke-free advocates seeking to promote policy cha…
Tuberculosis morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School 1910-1940
ObjectiveTo determine historical disparities in tuberculosis morbidity between Native American youth attending off-reservation government boarding schools and the non-Native American population.∧ Findings are placed within the context of documented health disparities in Native American populations, with implications for modern health.MethodsAnalysis performed on available epidemiologic data from Haskell Institute in Kansas and corresponding state…
American Indian” as a Racial Category in Public Health
When public health considers the health and disease status of Indigenous people, it often does so using a racial lens. In recent decades, public health researchers have begun to acknowledge that commonly employed racial categories represent history, power dynamics, embodiment, and legacies of discrimination and racism, rather than innate biology. Even so, public health has not yet fully embraced an understanding of other components of identity fo…
Looking Back to Leap Forward
Racism is now widely recognized as a fundamental cause of health inequalities in the United States. As such, health scholars have rightly turned their attention toward examining the role of structural racism in fostering morbidity and mortality. However, to date, much of the empirical structural racism-health disparities literature limits the operationalization of structural racism to a single domain or orients the construct around a White/Black …
Behavioral health services in Urban American Indian Health Programs
This study explores behavioral health services for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) at six Urban Indian Health Programs (UIHPs). Interviews and focus groups with clinicians and staff inquired about behavioral health treatment available, service needs, client population, and financial and staffing challenges. Resulting site profiles were created based on focused coding and integrative memoing of site visit field notes and respondent tra…
When I Spoke, I Spoke From the Heart”
Indigenous Peoples in Canada experience inequities in behavioral health outcomes stemming from colonial subjugation, including tacit cultural assimilation through health care. Indigenous communities assert that culturally commensurate health interventions improve wellbeing. This study, conducted with clients and staff at a First Nations behavioral health treatment program, sought to identify how respondents conceived of the therapeutic endeavor w…
It Makes My Heart Smile When I Hear Them Say, ‘Hi Grandpa, We’re Home!’”
Before colonization, Indigenous child protection looked like an interdependent community. Indigenous knowledges and relational actions kept all within its fold safe and well. Colonial dispossession of land, degradation of subsistence rights, boarding schools, ongoing child removal, capitalism, and systems of oppression attempted to disconnect Indigenous peoples from their language, lands, ceremonial practices, stories, dances, songs, family, comm…
Health survivance
Behavioral health inequity for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs), stemming distally from histories of colonization and continual subjugation, is a challenge that has largely evaded mainstream psychological solutions. Eurocentric psychology conceptualizes the contemporary AI/AN behavioral health environment in terms of compounded trauma balanced at times by remarkable instances of resilience. Decolonized approaches to psychology require…
The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities
Evaluating the relationship between structural racism and health inequity is conceptually and empirically complex. This critical review of policies and events extends a previously published framework for understanding structural racism in health research across ethnoracial groups from 1400 to present. We apply this framework for Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and White groups and reflect on, c…
Indigenous self-determination in mental health and wellness research in the US and Canada
“Self-determination”, recognized within North American Indigenous spaces as a political concept associated with Tribal rights to self-government over lands, resources, and programs, has drawn recent attention from health psy-ence researchers engaged with Indigenous mental health. To understand the scope of this scholarship and characterize how self-determination terminology functions in relation to Indigenous mental health, we conducted a scoping…
Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Health equity (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (3 works)