Acute rheumatic fever in first nations communities in northwestern Ontario: Social determinants of health "bite the heart"

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 881-886

  Gordon, Janet ^a   Kirlew, Mike ^b   Schreiber, Yoko ^c   Saginur, Raphael ^c   Bocking, Natalie ^d   Blakelock, Brittany ^e   Haavaldsrud, Michelle ^f   Kennedy, Christine ^b   Farrell, Terri ^a   Douglas, Lloyd ^b,d   Kelly, Len ^g  

^a Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Research Unit   (Canada)

^f HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^g Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CANADA; CANADIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FIRST NATION; FOLLOW UP; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SORE THROAT; YOUNG ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; ONTARIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; ONTARIO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944398612     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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