NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Shea, Elaine
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to describe the health concepts of Inuit adolescents by interviewing Inuit adolescents on their ideas about health (what is being healthy, how one becomes healthy, and how one learns about being healthy)...

Principal Investigator: Robinson, Patricia
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To analyze food samples from hunting and fishing in the Iqaluit area for pathogenic bacteria particularly Campylobacter and Salmonella....

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: O'Neil, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry out a study to evaluate the impact of obstetric evacuation policy on Inuit women and their families in the Keewatin....

Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry our research in the Inuvik area on northern infant nutrition. To study the vitamin, mineral and nutritional status of women during pregnancy and breast-feeding, to relate these findings to both the vitamin status of their infants at birth and to the immunologic and clinical status of the infants at six weeks of age....

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: Gillan, J.D.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To compile statistics on the incidence and periodicity of Uveitis in the Great Slave area of Canada....

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: Postl, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study epidemiology and therapy of Group A Streptococcal disease in northern native communities....

Principal Investigator: Szathmary, Emoke J.E.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To study the nutritional, fitness and genetic aspects of impared glucose tolerance and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in Dogrib Indians....