Thibault Martin

Beyond the Protection of the Land, National Parks in the Canadian Arctic: A Way to Actualized and Institutionalized Aboriginal Cultures in the Global

The Canadian government has long excluded Aboriginals from the governance processes of protected areas. However, today Aboriginals peoples, thanks to several judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada have now access to legal tools enabling them to participate equality on park management councils. Despite these legal advances not all co-management models give the same space to Aboriginals people and to their knowledge. As a result management councils express different levels of satisfaction with co-management. Co-jurisdiction is the form of co-management favoured by Aboriginals because it creates legal conditions for an egalitarian partnership based on recognition of their land rights and knowledge that they wish to pass on to future generations.

Evaluation of a prenatal peer counseling program with women living in poverty

Traditional medicine and modern public health have long failed pregnant women living in poverty. With birth outcomes less than optimal, they cumulate physical and psychosocial risks that are left unattended by approaches not based on the real needs of those women. The goal of this research was to describe and assess the empowerment process within a group of pregnant women living in poverty, a group of mothers from that community, and a group of health professionals all taking part in a prenatal peer counseling program. Interviews analyzed qualitatively led to the emerging middle range theory of prenatal peer counseling. The empowerment process, including group self determination, is described with both facilitating and limiting elements. If public health intends to attack problems of social justice, we will have to revisit our partnership and integrative models in order to look into other potential models.

Avaliação de um programa de acompanhamento pré-natal em meio carente

Traditional medicine and modern public health have long failed pregnant women living in poverty. With birth outcomes less than optimal, they cumulate physical and psychosocial risks that are left unattended by approaches not based on the real needs of those women. The goal of this research was to describe and assess the empowerment process within a group of pregnant women living in poverty, a group of mothers from that community, and a group of health professionals all taking part in a prenatal peer counseling program. Interviews analyzed qualitatively led to the emerging middle range theory of prenatal peer counseling. The empowerment process, including group self determination, is described with both facilitating and limiting elements. If public health intends to attack problems of social justice, we will have to revisit our partnership and integrative models in order to look into other potential models.

La evalución de un programa de acompañamiento prenatal con escasos recursos

Traditional medicine and modern public health have long failed pregnant women living in poverty. With birth outcomes less than optimal, they cumulate physical and psychosocial risks that are left unattended by approaches not based on the real needs of those women. The goal of this research was to describe and assess the empowerment process within a group of pregnant women living in poverty, a group of mothers from that community, and a group of health professionals all taking part in a prenatal peer counseling program. Interviews analyzed qualitatively led to the emerging middle range theory of prenatal peer counseling. The empowerment process, including group self determination, is described with both facilitating and limiting elements. If public health intends to attack problems of social justice, we will have to revisit our partnership and integrative models in order to look into other potential models.