Research Catalog

Title

Between two worlds : the report of the Northwest Territories perinatal and infant mortality and morbidity study / prepared by D.W. Spady ... [et al.].

Publication

Edmonton, Alta., Canada : Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta, [1982]

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Details

Additional Authors

Spady, Donald W.

Description

xxxiv, 271 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

A study of infants born in NWT during the period April 1, 1973 to March 31, 1974 analyzing their health in respect to their socio-economic and cultural environment, nutrition and health care.

Series Statement

Occasional publication / Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, The University of Alberta, 0068-0303 ; no.16

Uniform Title

Occasional publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) no. 16.

Subject

• Socioeconomic Factors
• Infant, Newborn, Diseases
• Infant Mortality
• Indians, North American
• Fetal Death
• Perinatal death > Northwest Territories
• Newborn infants > Northwest Territories > Mortality
• Death > Causes
• Infants > Diseases > Northwest Territories
• Infants > Health and hygiene > Northwest Territories
• Maternal health services > Northwest Territories
• Indians of North America > Northwest Territories > Mortality
• Indians of North America > Diseases > Northwest Territories
• Indian children > North America
• Newborn infants > Mortality > Northwest Territories
• Indians of North America > Mortality > Northwest Territories
• Canada > epidemiology
• Northwest Territories > Statistics, Medical
• Northwest Territories > Statistics, Vital

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Medical statistics
• Vital statistics
• Vital statistics.
• Statistics.

Note

• "March 1982."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 261-268.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 2. The setting of the study -- The Northwest Territories -- Communities of the Northwest Territories -- The Mackenzie Basin -- The Arctic region -- Living problems in the Northwest Territories -- Health care organization -- History -- Northwest Territories Health Service -- The health care delivery system -- Chapter 3. The people -- The people of the study -- Grouping of the study families -- General demographic information -- Child care -- The home -- Socio economic status -- Alcohol consumption patterns -- Chapter 4. Pregnancy, labor, and the newborn -- The pregnancy -- Information about the mother -- Prenatal care -- Maternal problems during pregnancy -- Labor -- Mothers "at risk" -- The newborn -- The Apgar score -- Birth weight -- Factors influencing birth weight -- Birth weight and maternal smoking -- Problems in the neonatal period -- Chapter 5. Perinatal deaths in the Northwest Territories -- Federal perinatal statistics -- Study perinatal statistics -- White perinatal deaths -- The Indian perinatal death -- The Inuit perinatal deaths -- Causes of perinatal deaths -- Environmental factors -- Mechanical factors -- Management of the newborn -- Chapter 6. Infant death -- Mortality review committee -- Post perinatal deaths -- Chapter 7. Nutrition -- Traditional infant feeding patterns -- Milk feeding -- Supplementary feeding -- The study population -- Milk feeding -- Factors influencing breast feeding -- Solid foods -- Vitamin supplements -- Iron supplements -- Sweet consumption -- Family eating patterns -- Food shortages -- Infant nutrition practices and morbidity -- Breast milk and morbidity -- Iron, vitamins and illness -- Chapter 8. Health care in the Northwest Territories -- Adequacy of health care -- Health care visits -- Well baby care visits -- Immunization practices -- Morbidity visits -- The nature of the morbid event -- A cautionary note -- Patterns of morbidity -- Infant health care indicators -- Chapter 9. Predictors of mortality and morbidity -- Procedures of analysis -- Global indices of health -- Data for specific morbidity categories.

ISBN

0919058205 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82180760^//r943

OCLC

• 12022327
• SCSB-13068319

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library