Ava C Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5593214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ava C Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ava C |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Safety: A Framework for Interactions between Aboriginal Patients and Canadian Family Medicine Practitioners
Current approaches for non-Aboriginal family medicine practitioners encountering Aboriginal patients are based in cultural sensitivity, which is an inadequate model to satisfy the obligation of family medicine residents and physicians to Aboriginal health in Canada. In this paper, we advocate for the adoption of a cultural safety approach as a superior method for training family medicine residents in interactions with Aboriginal patients. Family …
Don't be scared, you don't have to wear your lifejacket’: Using the theory of planned behaviour to understand lifejacket usage in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Water related activities result in a large number of fatalities annually throughout Canada, especially in the Canadian north, where drowning rates are up to ten times the national average. This study used participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand why residents of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) rarely wear lifejackets. Three themes emerged. Firstly residents largely perceive lifejackets to b…
Pedagogy of the Front Float: Dialogue and Aquatics Programming in Taloyoak, Nunavut
We examine the first author’s experiences with aquatics programming in Nunavut through a Freirian lens, arguing that one can use Paulo Freire’s ideals of dialogue and collaboration to recognize recreation as a mode of social oppression and to offer ways to disrupt this oppression. Though Freire’s work is almost 40 years old, his theoretical contributions have not yet been fully realized within the recent post-colonial context surrounding physical…
We listen to our Elders. You live longer that way”: Examining aquatic risk communication and water safety practices in Canada's North
We listen to our Elders. You live longer that way”: Examining aquatic risk communication and water safety practices in Canada's North
Don't be scared, you don't have to wear your lifejacket’: Using the theory of planned behaviour to understand lifejacket usage in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Water related activities result in a large number of fatalities annually throughout Canada, especially in the Canadian north, where drowning rates are up to ten times the national average. This study used participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand why residents of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) rarely wear lifejackets. Three themes emerged. Firstly residents largely perceive lifejackets to b…
Pedagogy of the Front Float: Dialogue and Aquatics Programming in Taloyoak, Nunavut
We examine the first author’s experiences with aquatics programming in Nunavut through a Freirian lens, arguing that one can use Paulo Freire’s ideals of dialogue and collaboration to recognize recreation as a mode of social oppression and to offer ways to disrupt this oppression. Though Freire’s work is almost 40 years old, his theoretical contributions have not yet been fully realized within the recent post-colonial context surrounding physical…
We listen to our Elders. You live longer that way”: Examining aquatic risk communication and water safety practices in Canada's North
Don't be scared, you don't have to wear your lifejacket’: Using the theory of planned behaviour to understand lifejacket usage in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
Water related activities result in a large number of fatalities annually throughout Canada, especially in the Canadian north, where drowning rates are up to ten times the national average. This study used participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand why residents of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) rarely wear lifejackets. Three themes emerged. Firstly residents largely perceive lifejackets to b…
Cultural Safety: A Framework for Interactions between Aboriginal Patients and Canadian Family Medicine Practitioners
Current approaches for non-Aboriginal family medicine practitioners encountering Aboriginal patients are based in cultural sensitivity, which is an inadequate model to satisfy the obligation of family medicine residents and physicians to Aboriginal health in Canada. In this paper, we advocate for the adoption of a cultural safety approach as a superior method for training family medicine residents in interactions with Aboriginal patients. Family …
Colonialism (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aquatic ecosystem (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Biology (1 works)