2011 Grant Awards

The posters and papers listed below each grant arise from work facilitated through the grant funding.

Access and utilization of health care for rheumatoid arthritis in Aboriginal people of Alberta

Principal Investigator: Jones, C.A. (PDF)
Co-investigators: Barnabe, C; Homik, J; Thurston, W; Crowshoe, L; Voaklander, D

Oral Presentations

Thurston W., Barnabe C., Coupal S., Jones A.  Group for Research with Aboriginal Peoples for Health (GRAPH) Research Forum 2013.  Calgary, AB, September 20, 2013. Exploring inequity in arthritis healthcare: Framing access for Aboriginal people

Poster Presentations

Presented at the 2013 Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability meeting.

• Resilience, resistance, ability expectations and buy-in to health care: Aboriginal peoples with arthritis speak (PDF)

Presented at the 2013 Campus Alberta Student Conference On Health

• Access to arthritis health services for Aboriginal people in Alberta:  Patient and health professional perspectives (PDF)

Presented at the 2015 Canadian Rheumatology Association meeting.

• The Importance of Primary Care Providers for Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis for First Nations Patients: Discrepancies in RA Prevalence and Specialist Care Use  (PDF)

Published Literature

• Thurston, W., Coupal, S., Jones, C.A.,  Crowshoe, L., Marshall, D.A., Homik, J., Barnabe, C. Discordant indigenous and provider frames explain challenges in improving access to arthritis care: a qualitative study using constructivist grounded theory (PDF). International Journal for Equity in Health(2014)