Smoking Behaviours Among Pregnant Women in the Baffin Region of Nunavut
Theses
Author/Creator
Chantal Nelson
Description
Population Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2012
Study results support the need for preventive and public health programs to improve maternal and infant well-being.
NOTE: Also published as Journal of Aboriginal Health, Summer, 2015.
Study reports family and peer influences play a large role in smoking uptake among Indigenous youth.
Comments on stories heard at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event held in Saskatoon, June 2012, especially those of women abused while at residential schools and when they returned to their communities.
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