Acute Care Hospitalizations for Mental and Behavioural Disorders among First Nations People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gisèle Carrière
Evelyne Bougie
Dafna Kohen
Health Reports, vol. 29, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 11-19
Description
Information gathered from 2006 Census of Population linked to the Canadian Institute for Health Information's Discharge Abstract Database from 2006/2007 through 2008/2009.. Records were classified into seven groups: substance-related, mood, schizophrenic/psychotic, anxiety, organic, personality, and all others. Found hospitalization rates were significantly higher for First Nations people.