Janet Jull

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Person-centred care means treating people who face health issues as valued partners in health systems. (Priscilla du Preez/Unsplash)

Person‑centred health care means ensuring that affected communities are leaders and partners in research

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario; Kimberly Fairman, University of Victoria, and Sandy Oliver, UCL

Research partnerships with the people and communities affected help to challenge health inequities, and support person-centred care in health systems.
Shared decision-making is a patient-centred approach to health choices that considers a patient’s values as well as clinical evidence. (Shutterstock)

Support and collaboration with health‑care providers can help people make health decisions

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario; Dawn Stacey, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Sascha Köpke, University of Cologne

Shared decision-making upholds person-centred care and supports people to take charge of their own health: their views, input and experiences are important contributors to health plans.
Inuit in the Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) region must travel long distances south to receive specialized health-care services. (Janet Jull)

Inuit cancer patients often face difficult decisions without support far from home

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario; Inuit Medical Interpreter Team; Malaya Zehr, Queen's University, Ontario, and Mamisarvik Healing Centre, Tungasuvvingat Inuit

Inuit living in their traditional territory must travel long distances — often with no personal support — for specialized health-care services like cancer care, obstetrics and dialysis.
Gathering on the land: Indigenous ways of knowing can ensure that communities reclaim and promote health and healing. (Melody Morton-Ninomiya)

Indigenous community research partnerships can help address health inequities

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario; Alexandra King; Angela Mashford-Pringle, University of Toronto; Cheyanne Desnomie, University of Regina; Darrel Manitowabi, Laurentian University; Jennifer Walker, Laurentian University; Lindsay Brant, Queen's University, Ontario; Malcolm King, Simon Fraser University; Melody E. Morton Ninomiya, Wilfrid Laurier University; Moses Gordon, University of Regina, and Priscilla Ferrazzi, University of Alberta

Many researchers may lack resources to guide them in conducting research that is equitable, inclusive and respectful of diverse Indigenous knowledge, ethics, practice and research sovereignty.
Cancer rates are rising among Inuit and critical oncology specialists and treatments are often located in urban centres, thousands of kilometres away from remote communities in Inuit Nunangat. (Alex Hizaka)

An Inuit approach to cancer care promotes self‑determination and reconciliation

Janet Jull, Queen's University, Ontario and Inuit Medical Interpreter Team

A ‘shared decision-making’ model enables collaboration with Indigenous communities within Canada’s health-care system - to respond to TRC Calls to Action and address rising cancer rates.

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