Design and implementation of the Our Health Counts (OHC) methodology for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) health assessment and response in urban and related homelands.

Objectives: Methods for enumeration and population-based health assessment for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis (FNIM) living in Canadian cities are underdeveloped, with resultant gaps in essential demographic, health, and health service access information. Our Health Counts (OHC) was designed to engage FNIM peoples in urban centres in "by community, for community" population health assessment and response.

Methods: The OHC methodology was designed to advance Indigenous self-determination and FNIM data sovereignty in urban contexts through deliberate application of Indigenous principles and linked implementation strategies.

Indigenous Peoples and Type 2 Diabetes: A Discussion of Colonial Wounds and Epistemic Racism.

Racism is rooted in historic and ongoing colonial strategies designed to erase, silence, and dismiss Indigenous peoples' voices, personhood, and worldview. Although within health care today interpersonal racism (discriminatory treatment) is commonly reported on, racism also influences our understanding of health conditions and related treatments. Epistemic racism, the discrimination of how we know, operates through the questions we ask to advance our evidence, and whose knowledge is sought and deemed valid.

Pregnant and early parenting Indigenous women who use substances in Canada: A scoping review of health and social issues, supports, and strategies.

This study reviews and synthesizes the literature on Indigenous women who are pregnant/early parenting and using substances in Canada to understand the scope and state of knowledge to inform research with the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg in Manitoba and the development of a pilot Indigenous doula program. A scoping review was performed searching ten relevant databases, including one for gray literature. We analyzed 56 articles/documents.

(Re)claiming our bodies using a Two-Eyed Seeing approach: Health-At-Every-Size (HAES®) and Indigenous knowledge.

We originally proposed a study to examine changes in disparities in "obesity" between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian populations, as called for in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Article 19 (2015), which calls for ongoing monitoring of disparities in health outcomes. Instead, we questioned the importance of reducing the prevalence of "obesity" as a health goal for Indigenous peoples. This critical commentary provides an overview of Canadian Indigenous populations' weight, its relationship with health outcomes, and weight stigma and discrimination, using an Indigenous feminist lens.

An Evaluation of an Experiential Learning Program in Global and Indigenous Health: The University of Manitoba's Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Program.

We conducted a mixed-methods outcome evaluation to examine student experiences and learning in the University of Manitoba's Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Program in Global and Indigenous Health. Our scholarship program is a bi-directional, 3-month international experiential learning program, including both undergraduate and graduate students, with associated online course focused on community engagement. Students completed a semi-structured narrative report at the conclusion of their funding related to their experience and learning.

Increased lithium dose requirement in a hyperglycemic patient.

Objective: To report a case of apparent increased lithium clearance in a patient with persistent hyperglycemia.

Methods: Lithium doses, blood glucose concentrations, and lithium plasma concentrations were evaluated in a patient during a 53-day inpatient admission for exacerbation of bipolar disorder. The lithium dose required to increase the lithium plasma concentration by 0.