Exposure to environmental contaminants in Nunavik

The target population of the survey was permanent residents of The extensive survey conducted by Santé Québec in Nunavik, excluding residents of collective dwellings and Nunavik in 1992 provided information on the health status households in which there were no Inuit aged 18 years old of the Nunavik population (Santé Québec, 1994). [...] A In 2003, the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social total of 677 private Inuit households were visited by Services (NRBHSS) decided to organize an extensive interviewers who met the household respondents to health survey in Nunavik in order to verify the evolution of complete the identification chart and the household health status and risk factors in the population. [...] Participants from 18 to 74 years of age were health indicators, physical measurements, and social, also asked to complete a food frequency questionnaire and environmental and living conditions, thus permitting a a 24-hour dietary recall, and to participate in a clinical thorough update of the health and well-being profile of the session. [...] The individual response rates are obtained by form of mercury is accumulated in animal tissues, multiplying the household participating rate by the especially in the liver and the kidney, and is biomagnified individual collaboration rate since the household and in the food chain (Hansen & Gilman, 2005). [...] In 1999, the use of lead cartridges for the hunting of Based on this background perspective, one of the research migratory birds was banned in Canada, and the public themes in the Nunavik Inuit Health Survey 2004 addressed health authorities of Nunavik actively informed the the following objectives: 1) to assess changes in population about lead (Levesque et al., 2003) in order to contaminant expos