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2008-12-01

Kelly, Janet, Lanier, Anne, Santos, Maria, Healey, Sylvia, Louchini, Rabia, Friborg, Jeppe, Young, T. Kue

"Objectives: This is first of 2 papers on the Circumpolar Inuit Cancer Review, an international collaborative effort involving researchers and health officials from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. It covers the period 1989–2003, updating the last review (1969-1988) and together provides an overview...

2008-12-01

Kelly, Janet, Lanier, Anne, Santos, Maria, Healey, Sylvia, Louchini, Rabia, Friborg, Jeppe, Young, T. Kue

"Objectives: This is the second of 2 papers reporting on the result of the Circumpolar Inuit Cancer Review, an international collaborative effort involving researchers and health officials from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Methods: Inuit cancer cases by age-sex group and anatomic site were...

2009-01-01

Deering, Kahtleen N., Lix, Lisa M., Bruce, Sharon, Young, T. Kue

"Objective: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide and place considerable burden on the Canadian health care system. This research investigates the self-reported prevalence of major chronic diseases and risk factors in northern Canadian populations and compares...

2013-08-05

Young, T. Kue

Plenary session, 15th International Congress of Circumpolar Health. Topics: "(a) Who are circumpolar peoples? (b) How has our population changed? (c) Do we enjoy the same health? (d) Why are we unequal? (e) What are our health care challenges? and (f) What can the circumpolar health ‘‘community’’...

Fall 2017

Quach, Kimberly

Canada is a low TB incidence country, with a rate of 4.4 per 100,000 in 2014. Despite this low incidence rate, TB affects certain groups disproportionately, most notably foreign-born persons from high incidence countries and Indigenous peoples. This study compares clinical, laboratory, and...

Fall 2019

Dyck, Samuel

Co-management, the concept that natural resource management is more effective and equitable when governments and local resource users work together, has become increasingly institutionalized in the Canadian territories. This thesis looks at one particularly ambitious application of the...

2018-07-08

Young, T. Kue, Fedkina, Natalia, Chatwood, Susan, Bjerregaard, Peter

"The eight Arctic States exhibit substantial health disparities between their remote northernmost regions and the rest of the country. This study reports on the trends and patterns in the supply and distribution of physicians, dentists and nurses in these 8 countries and 25 regions and addresses...

2011

O'Brien, B., Kaczorowski, J., Chalmers, B., Lee, L., Kingston, D., Dzakpasu, S., O'Campo, P., Heaman, M. I.

Objective: To compare the maternity experiences of immigrant women (recent, ≤ 5 years in Canada; non-recent > 5 years) with those of Canadian-born women. Methods: This study was based on data from the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey of the Public Health Agency of Canada. A stratified random...

2022-01-02

Lugosi-Schimpf, Nicole Vanessa Theresa

SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This research responds directly to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #93, which recognizes that racism between Indigenous and immigrant communities is a problem in Canada and needs to be addressed (2015a, 2015b). The goal of our research is to build...

2003-12-01

Young, T. Kue

"A population-based health interview and examination survey of 8 Inuit communities in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, Canada, during the early 1990s has resulted in an increased understanding of the burden and extent of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes and their risk factors such as genetics,...