First Nations Health Authority Opportunities

2014 RFP-09 Lit Review- Wellness Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Summary Details:

The First Nations Health Authority [FNHA) has an immediate requirement for a literature review with respect to wellness, health promotion and primordial prevention and primary disease prevention. The FNHA has adopted a First Nations' Perspective on Wellness that has been applied to all its planning, operations, programs and services, and as a way to visually depict, and describe, the organizations vision. Grounded in a First Nations' holistic approach to all of life, this perspective recognizes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of health and wellness as well as the social and environmental context to support health and wellness in which health exists. The intent of this perspective is to move from a reactive, illness based approach to a proactive, strengths based wellness approach and to create a shared understanding of a holistic vision of wellness for First Nations - the way it has always been. Being holistic, the perspective on wellness naturally considers the broader context of health and wellness (i.e. upstream determinants of health); it encourages and enables individual and community level wellness and resiliency through effective health and safety promotion, healthy public policy, engaged communities and supportive environments and systems to enable healthy personal choices, thereby fostering the creation of supportive environments and systems to enable healthy personal choices. For more information, visit www.fnha.ca/wellness. For other opportunities at FNHA, visit: http://www.fnha.ca/about/work-with-us