NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Palacios, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: In its final year of research, information will be collected concerning how, where and why injuries happen in the N.W.T.. This research will aid the present health system in targeting specific concerns and improving intervention programs....

Principal Investigator: Graham, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: Ms. Graham and Ms. Haywood will continue to administer the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire of Harrison and Bramson. The investigation will compare thinking styles of nurses in Outpost Health Centres with urban hospital nurses....

Principal Investigator: Barreto, Luis
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: A preliminary study will be undertaken to confirm the safety and the immunogenicity of the Connaught conjugate vaccine for native populations of the NWT (Phase I). This will be determined by the frequency and severity of adverse responses to three doses of the vaccine by a sample of infants 2-3 months of age drawn from Inuit and Dene populations. Parental consent will be obtained for all those in...

Principal Investigator: Mathias, Richard G.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study the effectiveness of two treatment protocols in controlling sexually transmitted diseases in communities in the N.W.T. The treatments are efficacious in individuals but it is not known which one will be better for overall community reduction in the numbers of cases of sexually transmitted disease....

Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To do a Northern Infant Nutritional Study by looking into the vitamin, mineral, and nutritional status of northern women during pregnancy and during breast feeding and to relate these findings to the vitamin status of their infants at birth and during the first six weeks of life; also to give vitamin supplements to the infants in a controller manner to re- evaluate their vitamin status at six wee...

Principal Investigator: Hornby, A.P.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To identify environmental factors involved in nasopharyngeal and esophageal cancers among the Canadian Inuit. This licence is conditional on all substances and drugs used being prescribed by the local physician....

Principal Investigator: Larke, R.P. Bryce
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To carry out a study of the epidemiology and control of viral hepatitis in Northern Canada....

Principal Investigator: Larke, R.P. Bryce
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To assess the extent of carriage by pregnant native women of a particular virus (hepatitis B virus HBV markers) Blood samples will be taken from appropriate donors in their home communities....

Principal Investigator: Spady, Donald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: As a folow-up to a 1973/74 study of infant mortality rates; this will deal with these children (now 8 and 9 years of age) from the standpoint of their present health and the incidence of certain diseases....

Principal Investigator: Spady, Donald W.
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: As a follow-up to a 1973/74 study of infant mortality rates, this study will deal with these children (now 6 and 7 years of age) from the standpoint of their present health and the incidence of certain diseases....