{"id":11372,"date":"2015-10-25T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/aboriginal-children-express-pain-differently-from\/"},"modified":"2015-10-25T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:14:47","slug":"aboriginal-children-express-pain-differently-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/aboriginal-children-express-pain-differently-from\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Aboriginal children express pain differently from non-Aboriginal children, and therefore may not receive the same levels of health care when they seek help\u2026\u201cBecause they are very stoic about pain, health practitioners often don\u2019t pick it up,\u201d explains Dr. Latimer. \u201cAboriginal children will sit quietly in an emergency room for hours, and others will be seen before them. Their pain is not recognized and so they are fearful when they come to the health-care system, and there is a lot of distrust and frustration resulting in repeat visits and persistent pain.\u201d<br \/>\nDr. Latimer\u2019s research has uncovered historical and cultural components of pain, and how pain is expressed. Because of the history of the Canadian residential schools, Aboriginal children learned to suppress their feelings, a cultural adaptation which has become inter-generational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dal.ca\/news\/2015\/10\/19\/understanding-how-aboriginal-children-express-pain.html\">Understanding How Aboriginal Children Express Pain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>this is a project headed and designed by indigenous researchers, for the benefit of indigenous communities. they are competing for funding so that they can disseminate their findings among health professionals and hopefully get better care for Aboriginal children, and they need your vote! voting closes October 28, 2015\u2013more info and the voting link in the original article linked above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/lezbongs.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">lezbongs<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aboriginal children express pain differently from non-Aboriginal children, and therefore may not receive the same levels of health care when they seek help\u2026\u201cBecause they are very stoic about pain, health practitioners often don\u2019t pick it up,\u201d explains Dr. Latimer. \u201cAboriginal children will sit quietly in an emergency room for hours, and others will be seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Xq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}