Adherence and barriers to H. pylori treatment in Arctic Canada.

• Main Authors: van Zanten, S.V., Chang, H.J., Morse, A., Lefebvre, M., Goodman, K.J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Circumpolar regions; Aboriginal health; Helicobacter pylori; Cancer; Peptic ulcers; Aklavik; Arctic; Canada
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/3b8458bd-badf-4ac3-b0e6-04a7025b7812; https://doi.org/10.7939/R38911Q90

Introduction. Helicobacter pylori infection is an emerging health concern to some northern Canadian Aboriginal communities and their clinicians. Clinicians in the north perceive H. pylori infection to be a major clinical problem because they find H. pylori infection in many patients evaluated for co...