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Dietary sources of energy and nutrients in the contemporary diet of Inuit adults: results from the 2007–08 Inuit Health Survey

Public Health Nutrition, 2018
Objective To characterize the major components of the contemporary Inuit diet and identify the primary sources of energy and essential nutrients. Design Dietary data were derived from the 24 h recall collected by the Inuit Health Survey (IHS) from 2007 ...
T. Kenny, X. Hu, H. Kuhnlein, S. Wesche, H. Chan   +4 more
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“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
wiley   +1 more source

Inuit Observations on Climate Change [PDF]

This is an overview of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) project at Sachs Harbour on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, an effort to document the problem of Arctic climate change as experienced by the Inuit living ...

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Culture et maladie mentale chez les Inuit du Nunavik [PDF]

, 1993
Bien que l'on retrouve dans la population Inuit du Grand Nord du Québec (Nunavik) les troubles psychiatriques majeurs décrits dans la nosologie psychiatrique actuelle, la culture influence de manière importante la symptomatologie et l'évolution de ces ...
Corin, Ellen, Corriveau, André, Fletcher, Christopher, Kirmayer, Laurence J.   +3 more
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Genetic architecture and adaptations of Nunavik Inuit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance We present a genetic study to highlight the genomewide architecture of Nunavik Inuit with emphasis on selection in gene coding regions. We discovered that the majority of Nunavik Inuit have negligible admixture with present-day populations ...
Sirui Zhou, Pingxing Xie, Amélie Quoibion, A. Ambalavanan, Alexandre Dionne‐Laporte, D. Spiegelman, Cynthia V. Bourassa, L. Xiong, P. Dion, G. Rouleau   +9 more
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Circumpolar Inuit health systems [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background . The Inuit are an indigenous people totalling about 160,000 and living in 4 countries across the Arctic – Canada, Greenland, USA (Alaska) and Russia (Chukotka). In essence, they are one people living in 4 countries. Although there have
Leanna Ellsworth, Annmaree O'Keeffe   +1 more
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An integrated knowledge translation approach to develop a shared decision-making strategy for use by Inuit in cancer care: a qualitative study.

Current Oncology, 2019
Background In relation to the general Canadian population, Inuit face increased cancer risks and barriers to health services use. In shared decision-making (sdm), health care providers and patients make health care decisions together.
J. Jull, A. Hizaka, A. Sheppard, A. Kewayosh, P. Doering, L. Macleod, G. Joudain, J. Plourde, D. Dorschner, M. Rand, M. Habash, I. Graham   +11 more
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An Assessment of Radiotherapy and Surgery Utilisation and Health Outcomes, in Aboriginal and Non‐Aboriginal People With Cancer in NSW, Australia, 2009–2018

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Aboriginal patients face barriers to accessing cancer care. Few studies have evaluated the utilisation of radiotherapy or surgery in Aboriginal people. This study aims at assessing variation in types of cancer, degree of spread (DOS) at presentation, utilisation rates of cancer surgery and radiotherapy between Aboriginal and non ...
Gabriel Gabriel, Kalinda Griffiths, Joseph Descallar, Mei Ling Yap, Shalini Vinod, Jesmin Shafiq, Susannah Jacob, Michael Barton, Gemma Mcerlean, Susan Anderson, David Sheehan, Geoff Delaney   +11 more
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The Sociology of Exclusion: A Knowledge Synthesis of Imperialism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism in Accounting Research*

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ways in which accountancy (accounting, accountability, and accountants) has been a device of imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism, and therefore has had deleterious effects on Indigenous peoples in former colonies and continues to negatively impact immigrants in postcolonial OECD countries, is under‐researched.
Akolisa Ufodike
wiley   +1 more source

[Review of] Jim Zwick. Inuit Entertainers in the United States [PDF]

, 2008
The stories documented in this book about Inuit entertainers in the United States reveals important events and circumstances pertaining to the lived experiences of Esther Eneutseak and her daughter Columbia, the only Eskimo born in the United States ...
Baker, Brian
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