Indigenous Health Transformation Roadmap 2018-2020 released by The Population, Public and Indigenous Health Strategic Clinical Network through Alberta Health Services states in its Executive Summary:
The transformational roadmap is the first step on a long road forward for our Strategic Clinical NetworkTM. Now our work and journey together truly begins. The Indigenous Health Transformational Roadmap (TRM) marks this journey forward and supports us to inform, through partnership and engagement, a way forward. It proposes three strategic directions for collective action across AHS and, with our partners, to enable the provision of quality services for better health outcomes with Indigenous populations in Alberta, and ultimately, for all Albertans.
The Strategic Directions outlined in the TRM are:
- Strategic Direction 1: Truth and Reconciliation
- Strategic Direction 2: Transform Health Services & Systems
- Strategic Direction 3: Address Indigenous Determinants of Health
The development and implementation of the TRM involves the following Guiding Principles:
- Guiding Principle 1: Build sustainable action to improve health
- Guiding Principle 2: Embrace traditional knowledge and practices
- Guiding Principle 3: Distinguish and realize Indigenous peoples’ health care rights
- Guiding Principle 4: Know the distinct health care needs of all Indigenous peoples
- Guiding Principle 5: Empower self-determination, autonomy and self-governance
- Guiding Principle 6: Exercise reconciliation leadership in all actions
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/about/scn/ahs-scn-ppih-ih-roadmap.pdf