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Hypercholesteremia in Indigenous Population: The Imperative for Culturally Sensitive Interventions and Collaborative Research. [PDF]
JACC Adv, 2023 Khan SU, Nasir K.
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Indigenous ancestry and admixture in the Uruguayan population [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Abstract The Amerindian group known as the Charrúas inhabited Uruguay at the timing of European colonial contact. Even though they were extinguished as an ethnic group as a result of a genocide, Charrúan heritage is part of the Uruguayan identity both culturally and genetically.
Lucía Spangenberg +16 more
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Frailty in Indigenous Populations: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: Indigenous populations experience high rates of age-related illness when compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Frailty is a challenging expression of aging and an important public health priority. The purpose of this review was to map what the existing literature reports around frailty in Indigenous populations and to highlight the
Ebony T. Lewis +12 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: Setting public health policies and effectively monitoring the impact of health interventions requires accurate, timely and complete cause of death (CoD) data for populations.
Lene Mikkelsen +15 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child confirms a child’s right to adequate food, and to the highest attainable standard of health. For indigenous children, these rights are also recognised in the UN Declaration on the Rights
Christina McKerchar +3 more
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Albuminuria: Marker or target in indigenous populations [PDF]
Kidney International, 2004 Australian Aborigines in remote areas are experiencing an epidemic of renal disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Adult deaths are increased 3- to 6-fold, and renal failure more than 20-fold. Renal disease is marked by albuminuria.
Hoy, W., McDonald, S.
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Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance in Gonorrhea: The Alberta Model, 2012–2016
Antibiotics, 2018 Alberta established a surveillance system in 2001 to monitor resistance to antibiotics used for the treatment of gonorrhea. A retrospective review of gonorrhea cases during the last five years was conducted.
Jennifer Gratrix +7 more
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Suicide in indigenous and non-indigenous population: a contribution to health management [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of suicide in the indigenous and non-indigenous population and the spatiality of the event. Method: Epidemiological, descriptive research, carried out with data from the Mortality Information System. Suicide mortality rates were calculated for the 144 municipalities in Pará
Cláudia Maria Rosa Braga +6 more
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003 The National Health and Medical Research Council, Research Agenda Working Group (RAWG), and the literature on Indigenous health have identified the need to fill gaps in descriptive data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and noted both the ...
Natalie Grove +3 more
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Maternal perceptions of childhood vaccination: explanations of reasons for and against vaccination
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Understanding reasons for and against vaccination from the parental perspective is critical for designing vaccination campaigns and informing other interventions to increase vaccination uptake in Canada.
Deborah A. McNeil +6 more
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