Household crowding and food insecurity among inuit families with school-aged children in the canadian arctic

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e122-e132

  Ruiz Castell, Maria ^a,e   Muckle, Gina ^a,b   Dewailly, Éirc ^b,c   Jacobson, Joseph L ^d   Jacobson, Sandra W ^d   Ayotte, Pierre ^b,c   Riva, Mylène ^b,c,e  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARCTIC; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INUIT; QUEBEC; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWDING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INUITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; QUEBEC; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84922707100     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302290     Document Type: Article

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