First Nations Holistic Policy and Planning Model

How it works

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• The First Nations Holistic Policy and Planning Model is a First Nations-specific framework developed by the Assembly of First Nations that places community at its centre with 15 determinants of health within a medicine wheel framework. — Prevalence of and factors associated with pain-related disabilities among First Nations people living off-reserve in Canada in 2017: a secondary analysis of data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
• Two determinants from the model — legal and political equity, and environmental stewardship — could not be meaningfully operationalised using available survey variables. — Prevalence of and factors associated with pain-related disabilities among First Nations people living off-reserve in Canada in 2017: a secondary analysis of data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
• The study incorporated the principle of Two-Eyed Seeing, introduced by Elder Albert Marshall, which integrates Indigenous and Western ways of knowing. — Prevalence of and factors associated with pain-related disabilities among First Nations people living off-reserve in Canada in 2017: a secondary analysis of data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
• An Indigenous Advisory Committee of six individuals contributed to framework selection, variable selection, interpretation, statistical modelling, and knowledge translation throughout the study. — Prevalence of and factors associated with pain-related disabilities among First Nations people living off-reserve in Canada in 2017: a secondary analysis of data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey