4 record(s) found with the tag "modernization impacts" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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The impact of television on northern native communities
Principal Investigator: Standefer, Roma
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will examine the impact of television on the community of Lake Harbour. Information will be collected through the use of interviews with selected people, including elders, adults and youth. Discussions will also be held with school teachers, social and health workers, Hamlet Council members and the RCMP. The research is being done to assess ways in which the CRTC can provide bett...


Ethnographic Study of the Psychological and Medical Impact of Modernization on Baffin Island Inuit
Principal Investigator: McElroy, Ann P.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a four-week pilot project to assess the feasibility of a follow-up study of the impact of change and modernization over the last 26 years on Inuit families in Iqaluit. A comparison of Iqaluit in the 1990s with Iqaluit of the 1960s will be conducted utilizing participant-observation as well as formal and informal interviews....


Licence #2625
Principal Investigator: Rode, Andris
Licensed Year(s): 1981
Summary: To conduct a follow-up study of the impact of southern Canadian diet and lifestyle on general health, nutrition and working capacity of Canadian Inuit. This is a follow-up to a study conducted in 1969-71....


Licence #2246
Principal Investigator: Lathrop, Mark
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To study the general health levels (nutritional status) of native people whose eating habits have changed from that of food obtained from "the land" to food obtained commercially (southern foods) by obtaining blood samples (orgal glucose tolerance test) to be studied for indications of diabetes....


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