Symposium on “Parental Education” at the ICCH17

Summary of the presentations included in the Symposium on Parental Education at the 17th International Congress of Circumpolar Health (ICCH17). Subjects include: 1. Uptake and impact of prenatal education in Northwestern Ontario: mother’s perspective 2. Learning from mothers and grandmothers about breastfeeding in the Northwest Territories Canada 3. Inunnguiniq parenting programme: a made-in-Nunavut programme based on Inuit knowledge 4. Early prevention in Greenland: MANU 0–2 years, a parent education programme 5. Arctic model of the first 1,000 days – a (under development) parent education programme in Sápmi Norway 6. The SamBa study: growing up in the Arctic – a longitudinal study of early childhood development and health in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children 7. Selecting performance indicators for maternity care in a circumpolar context: a modified Delphi approach