Admission to hospital for pneumonia and influenza attributable to 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 Influenza in First Nations communities in three provinces of Canada

• Published in: BMC Public Health
• Main Authors: Green, Michael E, Wong, Sabrina T, Lavoie, Josée G, Kwong, Jeff, MacWilliam, Leonard, Peterson, Sandra, Liu, Guoyuan, Katz, Alan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/83595; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1029

Abstract Background Early reports of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) indicated that a disproportionate burden of illness fell on First Nations reserve communities. In addition, the impact of the pandemic on different communities may have been influenced by differing provincial policies. W...