Anna J. W. Manore, Sherilee L. Harper, Jan M. Sargeant, J. Scott Weese, Ashlee Cunsolo, Anna Bunce, Jamal Shirley, Enooyaq Sudlovenick, Karen Shapiro,
... consumed, culturally important and nutritious country food in Iqaluit; however, shellfish may concentrate protozoan pathogens from contaminated ... of Cryptosporidium and Giardia infections in residents in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The objectives were to estimate the prevalence ... harvested clams. Clams ( n = 404) were collected from Iqaluit harvesters in September 2016. Haemolymph ( n = 328) and ... The overall prevalence of Giardia in clams near Iqaluit was low (0.6%) compared with other studies ... or animal faecal contamination of coastal habitat around Iqaluit in shellfish harvesting waters. Results from this study ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2020 - Wiley | Zoonoses and Public Health
I. Michael Weis, Luise Hermanutz,
... studied at Kuujjuaq, Que., and Tarr Inlet, near Iqaluit, N.W.T. At each site dispersing seeds ... dispersed was significantly greater at Kuujjuaq than near Iqaluit and was greater in high- than in low- ... viable propagules were found in collections from the Iqaluit area; from their weight distribution 0.38% were ... m 2 were predicted and 229 observed; at Iqaluit no emergences were predicted and none observed. In ... were predicted and 2164 observed. Corresponding rates for Iqaluit were 2 and 17 emergences/m 2 , respectively. ...
Tópico(s): Polar Research and Ecology
1988 - Canadian Science Publishing | Canadian Journal of Botany
Jordan Sugarman, Gonzalo G. Alvarez, Kevin Schwartzman, Olivia Oxlade,
... the establishment of a sputum induction programme in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.A decision analysis model compared the ... individual for two strategies: 1) initial investigation in Iqaluit, with transport to Ottawa for those requiring sputum ... and 2) sputum induction at the hospital in Iqaluit, with further investigation in Ottawa only if needed. ... with sputum induction in 1) Ottawa vs. 2) Iqaluit was CAD4798 (95% uncertainty range 2923-6650) vs. ... in a high-incidence Arctic community such as Iqaluit is projected to generate substantial cost savings in ...
Tópico(s): Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
2014 - International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
... and waste management issues for the town of Iqaluit, a rapidly growing coastal community soon to be ... examined in this study. The expanding population of Iqaluit has resulted in increased pressure on the coastal ... evident that the activities of the community of Iqaluit are impacting the coastal environment. In order to ... necessary in order to accommodate future growth in Iqaluit.
Tópico(s): Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
1998 - Taylor & Francis | Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques
Anna Banerji, David Greenberg, Laura F. White, W Alexander Macdonald, Audrey Saxton, Éva Thomas, Douglas Sage, Muhammad Mamdani, Krista L. Lanctôt, James B. Mahony, Mia Dingle, Ann Roberts,
... were admitted to the Baffin Regional Hospital in Iqaluit, Nunavut with LRTI. Controls were age matched and came from Iqaluit and 2 communities. Odds ratios (ORs) of hospital ... status, breast-feeding, overcrowding, and residing outside of Iqaluit. Viruses in nasophayngeal aspirates were sought at the ... CI: 1.1–14.6), residence outside of Iqaluit (OR = 2.7; 95% CI: 1.0–7. ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2009 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Derrick Y. Tam, Anna Banerji, Bosco Paes, Charles Hui, Jean‐Éric Tarride, Krista L. Lanctôt,
... age and area of residence, those residing in Iqaluit (<1 year) had an ICER of $152,145/ ... while those residing in rural areas (outside of Iqaluit) had an ICER of $24,750/QALY. Prophylaxis ... 1 year of age specifically residing outside of Iqaluit and is a dominant strategy for those under ... treatment for infants of all ages residing in Iqaluit.
Tópico(s): Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
2009 - Informa | Journal of Medical Economics
Sara Statham, James D. Ford, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Marie‐Pierre Lardeau, William A. Gough, Rick Siewierski,
... 2010–2011 affected the traditional food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut. This winter was anomalous throughout the Canadian ... sea-ice charts and temperature data from the Iqaluit weather station, this work identifies and characterises the extreme climatic conditions experienced, their subsequent effects on Iqaluit's traditional food system, and coping strategies used ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2014 - Cambridge University Press | Polar Record
Gonzalo G. Alvarez, Deborah D. VanDyk, Shawn D. Aaron, D. William Cameron, Naomi Davies, N. Atkinson Stephen, Ranjeeta Mallick, Franco Momoli, Katherine Moreau, Natan Obed, Maureen Baikie, Geraldine Osborne,
... to-door screening campaign was carried out in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The aim of the campaign was to ... TB screening in high risk residential areas in Iqaluit resulted in 224 individuals having TSTs read, and ... 17 new cases of active TB disease in Iqaluit during the study period (29.5% of all ...
Tópico(s): Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
2014 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
... Setting Research for this paper was conducted in Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), the capital of the Nunavut ... regular camping spot for many families living in Iqaluit, many of whom stop here while hunting in the outer reaches of Frobisher Bay. Iqaluit, by contrast, is the largest town in Nunavut, ... its size and its political and economic importance, Iqaluit only came into existence in the 1940s, first ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2001 - Taylor & Francis | The American Review of Canadian Studies
Sherilee L. Harper, Victoria L. Edge, James D. Ford, M. Kate Thomas, David L. Pearl, Jamal Shirley, Scott A. McEwen,
... acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, and Iqaluit, Nunavut, is higher than reported elsewhere in Canada; ... 8% (95% CI=1.5–14.4%)]; in Iqaluit, some cases used healthcare services [16.9% (95% ... with increased odds of using healthcare services in Iqaluit. In both communities, AGI severity and secondary symptoms ( ...
Tópico(s): Dental Health and Care Utilization
2015 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Sherilee L. Harper, Victoria L. Edge, James D. Ford, M. Kate Thomas, David L. Pearl, Jamal Shirley, Scott A. McEwen,
... in the Inuit communities of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, and Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. Cross-sectional retrospective surveys captured information ... 9 cases/person per year in Rigolet and Iqaluit. In Rigolet, increased spending on obtaining country foods, ... were associated with increased odds of AGI. In Iqaluit, eating country fish often, exposure to cats, employment ...
Tópico(s): Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
2015 - Cambridge University Press | Epidemiology and Infection
Yang Guo, Lea Berrang‐Ford, James D. Ford, Marie‐Pierre Lardeau, Victoria L. Edge, Kaitlin Patterson, Sherilee L. Harper,
... of food insecurity during 2 different seasons in Iqaluit, the territorial capital of Nunavut, as well as ... September 2012, 28.7% of surveyed households in Iqaluit were food insecure, a rate 3 times higher ... Arctic.The factors associated with food insecurity in Iqaluit differed from those identified in smaller communities, suggesting ...
Tópico(s): Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
2015 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Anna Banerji, Krista L. Lanctôt, Bosco Paes, Shababa T. Masoud, Derrick Y. Tam, W Alexander Macdonald, Ann Roberts,
... 6 months, <1 year) and location (overall, town [Iqaluit], rural communities). It was assumed that each category ... rates and costs associated with RSV admissions between Iqaluit and the communities. For infants <1 year of age residing in Iqaluit, the mean admission cost was $3915, and palivizumab ...
Tópico(s): Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
2009 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Mark Gordon, Sumita Biswas, Peter A. Taylor, John Hanesiak, Marna Albarran‐Melzer, Shannon Elizabeth Fargey,
Abstract A 10 m meteorological tower near Iqaluit Airport was operational from late October 2007 to early April 2008. Measurements included wind speed, temperature, pressure, humidity, visibility, and blowing snow number ... of the study, while meteorological observations from the Iqaluit weather office give a frequency of approximately 5%. ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
2010 - Taylor & Francis | ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
... settlement patterns in the Canadian Arctic increasingly urban. Iqaluit, capital of Canada's newest territory, Nunavut, is ... to be Inuit while living in towns like Iqaluit. This article examines those aspects of Canadian Inuit ... mid 1990s and early 2000s, the many ways Iqaluit and outpost camp Inuit express the differences and ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
2010 - Routledge | Acta Borealia
James D. Ford, Marie‐Pierre Lardeau, Will Vanderbilt,
... baseline study conducted with users of CFPs in Iqaluit, Nunavut, to identify and characterize utilization and document ... not completed high school compared to the general Iqaluit population, while also reporting high dependence on social ...
Tópico(s): Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
2012 - BioMed Central | BMC Public Health
James D. Ford, Graham McDowell, Jamal Shirley, Mike Pitre, Richard Siewierski, William A. Gough, Frank Duerden, Tristan Pearce, Peter Adams, Sara Statham,
... by Inuit harvesters using a case study from Iqaluit, Nunavut. The article makes important contributions to methodological ... 挑战了过往研究认为目前因纽特社会生态系统的恢復力象徵着对日后变迁具有高度调适能力的主张, 并指出气候变迁或许会对採收部门带来较过往所宣称的更为严重的风险。 Utilizando un estudio de caso de Iqaluit, Nunavut, este artículo promueve un marco de vulnerabilidad ... Nature et technologies. Thanks to all participants in Iqaluit who were involved in the research—specifically Josh ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
2013 - American Association of Geographers | Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Catherine Huët, James D. Ford, Victoria L. Edge, Jamal Shirley, Nia King, Sherilee L. Harper,
... with food insecurity in households with children in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. Randomly selected households were surveyed in Iqaluit in September 2012 and May 2013. Household food ... insecurity is high among households with children in Iqaluit. Despite the partial subsistence livelihoods of many Inuit ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
2017 - BioMed Central | BMC Public Health
Stephanie Masina, Jamal Shirley, Jean Allen, Jan M. Sargeant, Rebecca A. Guy, P. M. Wallis, J. Scott Weese, Ashlee Cunsolo, Anna Bunce, Sherilee L. Harper,
... in untreated surface water used for drinking in Iqaluit, Canada. Water samples (n = 55) were collected weekly ... with Giardia and Cryptosporidium may be lower in Iqaluit than in other Canadian regions; however, further research ...
Tópico(s): Fecal contamination and water quality
2018 - UWA Publishing | Journal of Water and Health
Zen Mariani, Armin Dehghan, Gabrielle Gascon, Paul Joe, David Hudak, K. B. Strawbridge, Julien Corriveau,
... 2016 at Environment and Climate Change Canada's Iqaluit research site (64°N, 69°W) have revealed ... 27.5 h. The integrated measurement platforms at Iqaluit permitted continuous observations of the evolution of stratification ...
Tópico(s): Cryospheric studies and observations
2018 - American Geophysical Union | Geophysical Research Letters
Danielle Julien, Jan M. Sargeant, Rebecca A. Guy, Karen Shapiro, Rachel K. Imai, Anna Bunce, Enooyaq Sudlovenick, Shu Chen, Jiping Li, Sherilee L. Harper,
... Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. in dogs in Iqaluit, Nunavut. We conducted two cross‐sectional studies in ... Giardia intestinalis assemblage B infections in residents in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada; however, the direction of transmission is ...
Tópico(s): Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
2019 - Wiley | Zoonoses and Public Health
Gonzalo G. Alvarez, Deborah Van Dyk, Ranjeeta Mallick, Sarah Lespérance, Patricia Demaio, Sandy Finn, Sharon Edmunds Potvin, Mike Patterson, Christopher Pease, Kanchana Amaratunga, Charles Hui, D. William Cameron, Sunita Mulpuru, Shawn D. Aaron, Franco Momoli, Alice Zwerling,
... 3HP for the first time in Canada in Iqaluit followed by a program rollout in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut. ... 247 people were offered 3HP, 102 in the Iqaluit postmarketing study and 145 in the Qikiqtarjuaq program ... started treatment completed treatment in the 3HP group (Iqaluit, 60/73 (82.2%) and Qikiqtarjuaq, 89/115 ( ...
Tópico(s): Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
2020 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Daniel Deacu, Ayrton Zadra, John Hanesiak,
... occurrence of strong and sustained surface winds at Iqaluit. The wind event of 7–8 November 2006, ... and the high surface wind speeds recorded at Iqaluit. Some of the findings are also supported by data from radiosondes launched at Iqaluit. A short sensitivity study shows the beneficial effect ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2010 - Taylor & Francis | ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
A. Wolfe, D. Venkatesan, R. Slawinski, C. G. Maclennan,
... 3 pulsations are examined from conjugate studies at Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay), Northwest Territories, Canada, and at the ... 1988). However, few simultaneous events are observed at Iqaluit and South Pole, indicating a lack of conjugacy ...
Tópico(s): Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
1990 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Qian Wu, T. J. Rosenberg, L. J. Lanzerotti, C. G. Maclennan, A. Wolfe,
... conjugate sites of South Pole station, Antarctica, and Iqaluit, Canada, have been used to study latitude differences ... field lines originating from South Pole station and Iqaluit reach deep into the magnetotail, they are likely ...
Tópico(s): Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
1991 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
L. J. Lanzerotti, Robert Konik, A. Wolfe, D. Venkatesan, C. G. Maclennan,
... obtained at the near cusp latitude conjugate stations Iqaluit, Northwest Territories, Canada, and South Pole Station, Antarctica. ... suggest that at the times of these events, Iqaluit and South Pole are at a higher effective ...
Tópico(s): Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
1991 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Janis E. Dale, Shannon R. Leech, S. B. McCann, Glenda M. Samuelson,
... processes affecting the subarctic, macrotidal tidal flats near Iqaluit, Nunavut. Tidal, wave, and ice processes dictate the ...
Tópico(s): Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
2002 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | The Geojournal library
BGE De March, L D Maiers, M. K. Friesen,
... significantly differentiated from Lancaster Sound/Barrow Strait, Kimmirut, Iqaluit, and/or Pangnirtung but not from Grise Fiord. ... differed from Kimmirut using both haplotypes and microsatellites. Iqaluit samples had intermediate genetic characteristics between Pangnirtung and ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2002 - Septentrio Academic Publishing | NAMMCO Scientific Publications
... adult Watt-Cloutier ranged between her home in Iqaluit (pronounced "Eehalooeet," capital of the new [End Page ... whom are Inuit. Some elders and hunters in Iqaluit have reported physical abnormalities afflicting the seals they ...
Tópico(s): Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
2002 - University of Nebraska Press | The American Indian Quarterly
... PO Box 2319, 626 Tumit Plaza, Suite 202 Iqaluit, NU, Canada X0A 0H0, shzhang@NRCan.gc.ca ... PO Box 2319, 626 Tumit Plaza, Suite 202 Iqaluit, NU, Canada X0A 0H0, shzhang@NRCan.gc.ca ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2008 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists | Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology