Gastrointestinal Illness in Canada’s North: Implications of Climate Change on Current and Future Inuit Health

• Main Author: Harper, Sherilee
• Other Authors: McEwen, Scott, Edge, Victoria
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Inuit health; acute gastrointestinal illness; ecohealth; enteric illness; diarrhea; Aboriginal; epidemiology; climate change; scenario planning; mixed-methods; burden of illness; Canada; Nunavut; Rigolet; inuit; Iqaluit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10214/7742

Current and potential future trends in the burden of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut and Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada were investigated in the context of climate change. A concurrent mixed methods design was used in which quantitative and qualitative data were concurrently c...