Inuit Health Statistics Browser
Tom
Axtell is the National Coordinator and Web Designer of a unique statistical
browser featuring the selected data form the Aboriginal Peoples Survey,
The Aboriginal Children’s Survey and Inuit Nunavik Health Survey.
Since the Web site was launched in the winter of 2011, Inuit regions and
communities will have access to the numbers describing many social-economic-environmental
determinants of health that are important to Inuit. Visit the project here.
Visit Nain, Labrador where the project took shape through workshop training
and audience research Watch the video, Naasautit
Goes to Nain on IsumaTV.
Qanuppitaa? How are we doing?
This
is a mock site to show how schools in the arctic could publish their statistics
to communicate with parents on school performance. Done is under a day,
I wanted to show a variety of data visualizations that educators can use.
But as I imagined a world where students and parents could look at all their
marks over time, I realized that most of us, Bill Gates and I at least,
want to forget those early “scores”. The data for graduation
rates shown here are the never before seen estimated “on-time”
graduation rates for Nunavut,
32% in 2010. They are estimates because I had partial data but the trend
is upward, and much higher than some other regions in the North.
Inuit Wellness.ca
Originally produced as an online resource for the QANUQTUURNIQ - FINDING
THE BALANCE television series (May 2009), the Inuit Wellness site has become
the first portal for consumer health information targeting Inuit youth,
men and mothers. The collection of resources are the best available from
the Inuit Tuittarvingat, Pauktuutit and many others on a wide number of
topics including segments from the tv series. Visit the Youth section here.
Honouring Life Network
Behind the epidemic of suicides in certain Aboriginal communities is the
loss of hope and lack of help. The National Aboriginal Health Organization
contracted Tom Axtell to build a web site directory of resources with a
supportive forum for community health workers. Instead, his team delivered
an inspiring collection of first person stories that model help seeking
and coping behavior, and arranged a transfer of knowledge from ReachOut,
Australia’s award winning mental health site, plus an interactive
forum for youth workers. NAHO and Earthlore
Communications designed the web site and life embracing artwork.
The Honouing Life Network was launched in March 2008. I was coincidently in Inuvik.....
Feature articles
Aboriginal
Peoples can prevent colorectal cancer rates from rising
(March 2007)
Colorectal
cancer rates in the Aboriginal population are rising at a higher rate than
the Canadian average. According to Cancer Care Ontario, unless
preventative measures are taken, colorectal cancer rates among Aboriginal
Peoples will soon surpass those in the general population. Like Type 2 diabetes,
this is a disease that people can do a lot about...