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, Bathony, Laakkuluk Williamson, Edmunds-Potvin, Sharon, Arbour, Laura
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2012
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; First Nations; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4985; http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/12/190; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-190

BioMed Central 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...