Alcohol, drug use and gambling among the Inuit of Nunavik

Alcohol, Drug Use and Gambling Among the Inuit of Nunavik: Epidemiological Profile BACKGROUND OF THE NUNAVIK INUIT HEALTH thorough update of the health and well-being profile of the SURVEY Inuit population of Nunavik. [...] The extensive survey conducted by Santé Québec in The target population of the survey was permanent Nunavik in 1992 provided information on the health status residents of Nunavik, excluding residents of collective of the Nunavik population (Santé Québec, 1994). [...] A sedentary lifestyle, the switch to a cash-based the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the domestic economy, the modernization of living conditions Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada (ArcticNet). [...] Questions on Health Survey (NIHS) carried out in fall 2004 throughout lifetime use and frequency of consumption in the the 14 communities in Nunavik permitted an updating of preceding months allowed a determination of the type of the alcohol and drug use descriptive profile in the drinker: regular drinker, occasional drinker, former population aged 15 years and over, and the identification drinker [...] The Canadian Community Health Survey 2003 12 months and the reasons underlying these changes.3 (CCHS) (Statistics Canada, 2003) and the CAS 2004 were also used to compare the situation of the Inuit of Nunavik The CAGE questionnaire (Ewing, 1984) was integrated with those of southern Quebec and of Canada as a whole into the confidential questionnaire of the Nunavik Inuit when the questions in the v