66 examples of the 254 studies used in the review (posted as supplied by author)

Waldram JB, Herring DA, Young TK. Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Report. Vol 3. Gathering Strength. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group Publishing, 1996.

Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada – Final Report. Ottawa, 2002. [www.romanowcommission.ca/ accessed 5 February 2003]

Commission on Health Research for Development. Health Research: Essential Link to Equity in Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Global Forum for Health Research. The 10/90 Report on Health Research 2001-2002. Geneva: 2002. [www.globalforumhealth.org/pages/index.asp, accessed 5 February 2003]

World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2002. Geneva, WHO, 2002.

Statistics Canada. 2001 Census. Aboriginal peoples of Canada: A Demographic Profile. Ottawa, 2003. [www.statcan.ca/english/IPS/Data/96F0030XIE2001007.htm, accessed 5 February 2003]

Young TK. The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

MacMillan HL, MacMillan AB, Offord DR, Dingle JL. Aboriginal health. Can Med Assoc J 1996;155: 1569-78.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Basic Departmental Data 2001. Ottawa: Government Services Canada, 2002 [www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/sts/bdd01/bdd01_e.html, accessed 5 February 2003]

Health Canada. A Second Diagnostic on the Health of First Nations and Inuit People in Canada. Ottawa, 1999.

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Bjerregaard P, Young TK. The Circumpolar Inuit: Health of a Population in Transition. Copenhagen: Munksgaard International, 1998.

Young TK. Are subarctic Indians undergoing the epidemiologic transition? Soc Sci Med 1988;26:659-71.

Urquhart JA. The most northerly practice in Canada. Can Med Assoc J 1935;33:193-6.

Hildes JA. The circumpolar people – health and physiological adaptations. In Baker PT, Weiner JS, eds. The Biology of Human Adaptability. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966: 497-508.

Stewart DA. The Red Man and the White Plague. Can Med Assoc J 1936;35:674-6.

Enarson DA, Grzybowski S. Incidence of active tuberculosis in the native population of Canada. Can Med Assoc J 1986;134:1149-52.

Kirmayer LJ, Malus M, Boothroyd LJ. Suicide attempts among Inuit youth: a community survey of prevalence and risk factors. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1996;94:8-17. Young TK, Reading J, Elias B, O’Neil JD. Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Canada’s First Nations: status of an epidemic in progress. Can Med Assoc J 2000;163: 561-6.

Garro L. Explaining high blood pressure: variation in knowledge about illness. Am Ethnologist 1988; 15:98-119.

Waldram JB. Aboriginal spirituality: symbolic healing in Canadian prisons. Cult Med Psychiatry 1993;17:345-62.

Young DE. Cry of the Eagle: Encounters with a Cree Healer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Chandler MJ, Lalonde C. Cultural continuity as a hedge against suicide in Canada’s First Nations. Transcult Psychiatry 1998; 35;191-219.

O’Neil JD. The politics of health in the fourth world: a northern Canadian example. Hum Organization 1986;45:119-28.

Bruce SG. The impact of diabetes mellitus among the Métis of western Canada. Ethn Health 2000;5:47-57.

Shestowsky B. Health related concerns of Canadian aboriginal people residing in urban areas. Int Nur Rev 1995;42:23-6.

Harris SB, Gittelsohn J, Hanley AJG, Barnie A, Wolever TMS, Gao J, Logan A, Zinman B. The prevalence of NIDDM and associated risk factors in native Canadians. Diabetes Care 1997;20:185-197.

McIntyre L, Connor SK, Warren J. Child hunger in Canada: results of the 1994 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Can Med Assoc J 2000;163:961-5.

Caulfield LE, Harris SB, Whalen EA, Sugamori ME. Maternal nutritional status, diabetes and risk of macrosomia among Native Canadian women. Early Hum Dev 1998;50:293-303.

Law BJ, Rosenberg T, MacDonald NE, Ashton FE, Huang JC, King WJ, Ferris WJ, Gray GJ. Age-related immunogenicity of meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine in aboriginal children and adolescents living in a northern Manitoba reserve community. Pediatr Infec Dis J 1998;17:860-4.

Hegele RA, Ramdath DD, Ban MR, Carruthers MN, Carrington CV, Cao H. Polymorphisms in PNLIP, encoding pancreatic lipase, and associations with metabolic traits. J Hum Genet 2001;46:320-4.

Hegele RA, Cao H, Hanley AJ, Zinman B, Harris SB, Anderson CM. Clinical utility of HNF1A genotyping for diabetes in Aboriginal Canadians. Diabetes Care 2000;23:775-8.

Kuhnlein HV, Soueida R, Receveur O. Dietary nutrient profiles of Canadian Baffin Island Inuit differ by food source, season, and age. J Am Diet Assoc 1996;96:155-62.

Hemmelgarn B, Ernst P. Airway function among Inuit primary school children in far northern Quebec. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997;156:1870-5.

Calzavara LM, Burchell AN, Myers T, Bullock SL, Escobar M, Cokerill R. Condom use among Aboriginal people in Ontario, Canada. Int J STD AIDS 1998;9:272-9.

Myers T, Bullock SL, Calzavarra LM, Cockerill R, Marshall VW. Differences in sexual risk-taking behaviour with state of inebriation in an aboriginal population in Ontario, Canada. J Stud Alcohol1997;58:312-22.

Dewailly E, Ayotte P, Bruneau S, Gingras S, Belles-Isles M, Roy R. Susceptibility to infections and immune status in Inuit infants exposed to organochlorines. Environ Health Perspect 2000;108:205-11.

Lawrence R, Martin D. Moulds, moisture and microbial contamination of First Nations housing in British Columbia, Canada. Int J Circumpolar Health 2001;60:150-6.

Young TK. Sociocultural and behavioural determinants of obesity among Inuit in the central Canadian Arctic. Soc Sci Med 1996;43:1665-71.

Trovato F. Aboriginal mortality in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. J Biosoc Sci 2001;33:67-86.

Gaudette LA, Freitag S, Dufour R, Baikie M, Gao RN, Wideman M. Cancer in circumpolar Inuit: background information for cancer patterns in Canadian Inuit. Acta Oncol 1996;35:527-33.

Rowe PC, Orrbine E, Ogborn M, Wells GA, Winther W, Lior H, Manuel D, McLaine PN. Epidemic Escherichia coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in a Canadian Inuit community: intestinal illness in family members as a risk factor. J Pediatr 1994;124:21-6.

Heal G, Elwood RK, FitzGerald JM. Acceptance and safety of directly observed versus self-administered isoniazid preventive therapy in aboriginal peoples in British Columbia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1998;2:979-83.

Heath KV, Cornelisse PG, Strathdee SA, Palepu A, Miller ML, Schechter MT, O’Shaughnessy MV, Hogg RS. HIV associated risk factors among young Canadian aboriginal and non-aboriginal men who have sex with men. Int J STD AIDS 1999;10:582-7.

Auer AM, Andersson R. Canadian Aboriginal communities: a framework for injury surveillance. Health Promot Internation 2001;16:169-77.

Malchy B, Enns MW, Young TK, Cox BJ. Suicide among Manitoba’s Aboriginal people, 1988 to 1994. Can Med Assoc J 1997;156:1133-8.

Kirmayer LJ, Brass GM, Tait CL. The mental health of Aboriginal peoples: transformations of identity and community. Can J Psychiatry 2000;45:607-16.

Brady M. Culture in treatment, culture as treatment. A critical appraisal of developments in addictions programs for indigenous North Americans and Australians. Soc Sci Med 1995;41:1487-98.

Nicolle LE, Friesen D, Harding GK, Roos LL. Hospitalization for acute pyelonephritis in Manitoba, Canada, during the period from 1989 to 1992: impact of diabetes, pregnancy and aboriginal origin. Clin Infect Dis 1996;22:1051-6/

Poland GA, Jacobson RM, Thampy AM, Colbourne SA, Wollan PC, Lipsky JJ, Jacobsen SJ. Measles reimmunization in children seronegative after initial immunization. JAMA 1997;277:1156-8.

Millar WJ. Place of birth and ethnic status: factors associated with smoking prevalence among Canadians. Health Rep 1992;4:7-24.

Chan HM, Berti PR, Receveur O, Kuhnlein HV. Evaluation of the population distribution of dietary contaminant exposure in an Arctic population using Monte Carlo statistics. Environ Health Perspect 1997; 105:316-21.

Boothroyd LJ, Kirmayer LJ, Spreng S, Malus M, Hodgins S. Completed suicides among the Inuit of northern Quebec, 1982-1996: a case-control study. Can Med Assoc J 2001; 165:749-55.

DeCoster C, Peterson S, Carriere KC, Kasian P. Assessing the extent to which hospitals are used for acute care purposes. Med Care 1999;37(6 Suppl): JS151-66.

Kraut A, Walld R, Tate R, Mustard C. Impact of diabetes on employment and income in Manitoba, Canada. Diabetes Care 2001;24:6408.

Zammit MP, Kalra V, Winters EB. Growth patterns of Labrador Inuit youth. I. Height and weight. Arct Med Res 1993;52:153-60.

Milnes AR, Rubin CW, Karpa M, Tate R. A retrospective analysis of the costs associated with the treatment of nursing caries in a remote Canadian aboriginal preschool population. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 1993;21:253-60.

Godel JC, Basu TK, Pabst HF, Hodges RS, Hodges PE, Ng ML. Perinatal vitamin A (retinol) status of northern Canadian mothers and their infants. Biol Neonate 1996;69:133-9.

Kozyrskyj AL, Mustard CA. Validation of an electronic, population-based prescription database. Ann Pharmacother 1998;32:1152-7.

Bruce S. Prevalence and determinants of diabetes mellitus among the Métis of Western Canada. Am J Hum Biol 2000;12:542-551.

Tjepkema M. The health of the off-reserve Aboriginal population. Health Rep 2002; 13(Suppl):73-88.

Mao Y, Moloughney BW, Semenciw RM, Morrison HI. Indian reserve and registered Indian mortality in Canada. Can J Public Health 1992; 82:350-3.

White JP, Maxim PS, Whitehead PC. Social capital, social cohesion and population outcomes in Canada’s First Nations communities. London, Ontario: Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario, 2000 [Discussion Paper no. 00-7].

Young TK, Szathmary EJE, Evers S, Wheatley B. Geographical distribution of diabetes among the native population of Canada: a national survey. Soc Sci Med 1990; 31:129-39.

Connop PJ. Canadian Indian health status index. Med Care 1983;21:67-81.

Institute of Aboriginal People’s Health. Annual Report of Activities 2001-2002. Ottawa: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2002. [www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/institutes/iaph/publications/annual_report_2001-02_e.pdf, accessed 5 February 2003]