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Régions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Sahtu Settlement Area, Dehcho Region, North Slave Region, South Slave Region

étiquettes: health, aboriginal community, risk assessment, social services, physical health, nutrition

Objectif(s): The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) of Health Canada, in collaboration with Katherine Gray-Donald (School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University) is sponsoring a research investigation to understand the prevalence of high and low infant birth weight and associated health complications in aboriginal communities across Canada. CPNP is sponsoring this research to improve program planning for prenatal care by improving the understanding of health problems facing First Nations and Inuit children and their mothers. Identifying prevalence rates of low and high infant birth weight is important for several reasons. Firstly, infant birth weight is used as a general measure of assessing infant health upon delivery. Low infant birth weight is often associated with an increased likelihood of respiratory and developmental problems in newborns, while very high infant birth weight is associated with increased physical risks to the mother (e.g. cesarean section delivery) as well as the infant. Previous studies have shown that First Nations populations have higher average birth weights than other Canadians. High birth weight statistics have indicated that infants with high birth weights are more likely to become obese or develop Type II diabetes later in life. There is not much information about birth weight distribution in Inuit babies. The research objective of the Northwest Territories portion of the study is to collect infant birth weight data to determine high and low birth weights. Data will be obtained and summarized from Vital Statistics information for infants born between January 1990 and December 2000. Information that will help interpret infant birth weight (year of birth, infant gender, maternal age, parity, place of birth, birth type and ethnicity) will also be collected.

Description du projet: The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) of Health Canada, in collaboration with Katherine Gray-Donald (School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University) is sponsoring a research investigation to understand the prevalence of high and low infant birth weight and associated health complications in aboriginal communities across Canada. The goal of this research is to facilitate program planning for prenatal care by improving the understanding of health problems facing First Nations and Inuit children and their mothers. Birth weight data for the period from January 1990 to December 2000 will be collected from Population Health, Department of Health and Social Services, GNWT. Additional information that will be collected to aid in the interpretation of the data will include type of birth, gender, ethnicity, maternal age, location of birth, and number of infants born to each woman. No identifying information will be collected, or reported.