Where There Is No Paramedic: The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative
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چکیده
Aaron Orkin and colleague describe their collaboration that developed, delivered, and studied a community-based first response training program in a remote indigenous community in northern Canada.
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Community-based first aid: a program report on the intersection of community-based participatory research and first aid education in a remote Canadian Aboriginal community.
CONTEXT Community-based first aid training is the collaborative development of locally relevant emergency response training. The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative was developed, delivered, and evaluated through two intensive 5-day first aid courses. Sachigo Lake First Nation is a remote Aboriginal community of 450 people in northern Ontario, Canada, with no local p...
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