Principal Investigator:Chatwood, Susan Licensed Year(s):
2013
Summary:
This thesis aims to explore the mechanisms that influence health system performance through a stewardship lens that provides insight as to how ministries, affiliated health sectors and regions not only carry out performance measures, but also hold accountability and make improvements.
Understandings around the performance of health systems in circumpolar regions will be addressed through a case...
Principal Investigator:Rode, Andris Licensed Year(s):
1993
Summary:
The 1993 activities in Igloolik will be to establish a cardiovascular risk profile for local Inuit by means of taking blood samples and constructing the blood-lipid profiles. These activities are part of an ongoing investigation of health and fitness levels in northern indigenous peoples. Dr. Rode is working with Dr. Pavel Vloshinsky of the Institute of Biochemistry in Novosibirsk: Dr. Vloshinsk...