2016 Cancer in First Nations in Ontario: Risk Factors and Screening
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Loraine Marrett
Maegan Prummel; Sehar Jamal
Abigail Amartey
Sundus Haji-Jama ... [et al.]
Measured nutritional health of Indigenous children under 5 and Indigenous women 14 to 49. Focused on: nutritional status, prevalence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in women, child hospitalization, prevalence of tuberculosis and malaria in women, access to health services and programs, and characteristics of the domestic economy and diet.
Research focused on five themes: accessing care early in pregnancy, utilization of Primary Birthing Units, accessing affordable contraception, strategies for smoking cessation, and culturally appropriate nutritional interventions.