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Record W4413095366 · doi:10.11647/obp.0477.08

8. The Consequences for Indigenous Deaths of Despair

2025· book-chapter· en· W4413095366 on OpenAlexaff
Mukesh Eswaran

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousHistorical traumaPsychological painCriminologyGeographyPsychiatryHistoryEthnologyMedicinePsychologyPsychotherapistEcology

Abstract

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In Chapter 8, the book turns its attention to what the economic model has to say about the health status of and deaths of despair among the North American Indigenous Peoples. It theoretically traces the effects of pain, and the reduced sense of belonging induced by historical trauma, on the reallocation of resources to pain alleviation. This links the extent of historical trauma to substance abuse (excessive drug and alcohol consumption) and to suicides and, generally, to deaths of despair. A key to understanding Indigenous suicides is the disruption to the sense of self, as emphasized by the landmark study of Chandler and Lalonde (1998). In this chapter, the economic model demonstrates how trauma and the associated psychological pain wreak havoc on Indigenous identities and facilitate suicide in the absence of suitable means of treating pain. The model also suggests the hypothesis that variation in the extent of historical trauma across North American Indigenous communities may explain the large disparity in deaths of despair observed.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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