Causes and risk factors for infant mortality in Nunavut, Canada 1999–2011

• Published in: BMC Pediatrics
• Main Authors: Collins, Sorcha A, Surmala, Padma, Osborne, Geraldine, Greenberg, Cheryl, Bathory, Laakkuluk Williamson, Edmunds-Potvin, Sharon, Arbour, Laura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2012
• Subjects: Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health; British Columbia; Canada; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; First Nations; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190/fulltext.html; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190.pdf

Abstract Background The northern territory Nunavut has Canada’s largest jurisdictional land mass with 33,322 inhabitants, of which 85% self-identify as Inuit. Nunavut has rates of infant mortality, postneonatal mortality and hospitalisation of infants for respiratory infections that greatly exceed t...