Fort Severn First Nation Community Telemedicine Coordinator presents telemental health paper
Press release
Perspectives of Remote and Rural First Nations Community Members on Telemental Health
How do rural and remote First Nations community members feel about using technology for telehealth? The success of telehealth and other community ICT projects depends on the willingness of community members to use the technology. However community members’ perspectives are often unknown or poorly understood.
A paper presented this week at the Canadian Rural Health Research conference has developed new understanding of the range of community views. The paper - Listening to the Communities: Perspectives of Remote and Rural First Nations Community Members on Telemental Health – is based on research conducted and written in collaboration with Keewaytinook Okimakakanak and community members in Fort Severn First Nation and Mishkeegogamang First Nation in Northwestern Ontario.
The reference is: Gibson, K., Coulson, H., Miles, R., Kakekayskung, K., Daniels, B., O’Donnell, S. (2010) Listening to the Communities: Perspectives of Remote and Rural First Nations Community Members on Telemental Health. Rural Health: Connecting Research and Policy. Fredericton, Canada, September 23-25.
The paper can be downloaded from the VideoCom project Moodle meeting space:
http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=1722&chapterid=850
VideoCom is a collaborative research project exploring how remote and rural First Nations communities are using information and communication technologies for community, social and economic development. The project partners are Keewaytinook Okimakanak, Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Help Desk, the First Nations Education Council, the National Research Council and the University of New Brunswick.
For more information check out the VideoCom moodle - http://videocom.firstnation.ca