Volume 16 No.4, 1995

In this issue

Using Qualitative Research to Understand the Sociocultural Origins of Diabetes among Cape Breton Mi'kmaq
Kim D Travers

Effect of Bush Living on Aboriginal Canadians of the Eastern James Bay Region with Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus
Elizabeth J Robinson, Yitades Gebre, Joyce L Pickering, Beatrice Petawabano, Beatrice Superville and Claudette Lavallée

The Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Project: Design, Methods and Lessons Learned
Anthony JG Hanley, Stewart B Harris, Annette Barnie, Joel Gittelsohn, Thomas MS Wolever, Alexander Logan and Bernard Zinman

Developing Diabetes Interventions in an Ojibwa-Cree Community in Northern Ontario: Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Joel Gittelsohn, Stewart B Harris, Sara Whitehead, Thomas MS Wolever, Anthony JG Hanley, Annette Barnie, Louisa Kakegamic, Alexander Logan and Bernard Zinman

Diabetes Prevalence, Behavioural and Anthropometric Risk Factors, and Psychosocial Constructs in Three Aboriginal Communities in Central British Columbia
Mark Daniel, Diane Gamble, Joyce Henderson and Sandy Burgess

Position Paper
Preventing Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes among Aboriginal Peoples: Is Exercise the Answer?
Roland F Dyck and Helena Cassidy

Book Reviews
A Dictionary of Epidemiology, Third Edition
Reviewed by Kathryn Wilkins
Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000 : Indirect Estimates from National Vital Statistics
Reviewed by Gregory Taylor

New Publications
National Cancer Control Programmes: Policies and Managerial Guidelines Geneva: World Health Organization, 1995
Health in Europe: The 1993/1994 health for all monitoring report
WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No 56 Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1995

Abstract Reprints

• Increasing incidence of diabetes in successive birth cohorts of Pima Indians
  
• Cardiovascular disease in Navajo Indians with type 2 diabetes
  
• Coronary heart disease prevalence and its relation to risk factors in
• American Indians: the Strong Heart Study
  
• Incidence and predictors of diabetes in Japanese-American men: the
• Honolulu Heart Program
  
• Increase in incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus among children in Finland
  
• International analysis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus mortality: a preventable mortality perspective. The Diabetes Epidemiology
• Research International (DERl) Study
  
• Mortality attributable to tobacco use in Canada and its regions, 1991
  
• Parental smoking and risk of otitis media in pre-school children
  
• The impending Canadian prostate cancer epidemic
  
• Hereditary aspects of prostate cancer
  
• Physical activity, medical history, and risk of testicular cancer (Albert and British Columbia, Canada)
  
• Rates of transcervical and pertrochanteric hip fractures in the province of Quebec, Canada, 1981-1992
  
• Accounting for cluster randomization: a review of primary prevention trials, 1990 through 1993
  
• Pediatric mortality and hospital use in Canada and the United States, 1971 through 1987
  
• Socioeconomic indicators and mortality from coronary heart disease and cancer: a 22-year follow-up of middle-aged men
  
• Poverty and death in the United States-1973 and 1991
  
• The sex ratio of mortality and its secular trends
  
• Epidemiology for prevention
  

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March 23 - August 21, 1996

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