Aligning Indigenous and Western Concepts of Health Resource Decision Making in a Western Canadian First Nations Context
This Indigenous-informed research aligns concepts of resource decision making by showing the thematic backgrounds of First Nations and Western thinking, which are linked by the common concepts of values, holism, time, resources, and context. Centering future community engagement on these shared concepts while grounding them in community-generated health value sets can advance the development of novel, culturally relevant health outcome measures.
Authors
- Rhonda C. Bell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4298-9641)
- Lea Bill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5430-4902)
- Barbara Verstraeten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0539-8877)
- Aidan Neill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2156-620X)
- Mike Paulden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0381-5980)
- Stephanie Rose Montesanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3284-5767)
- Richard T. Oster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-9263)
- Arto Öhinmaa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7094-1573)
Institutions
- Alberta Health Services (CA)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Provincial Laboratory of Public Health (CA)
- Assembly of First Nations (CA)
- Alberta Health (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
- Published
- 2025-09-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-025-01004-4
- Primary Topic
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research