Recurring cycles of ice and vegetation on Baffin Island, Nunavut by Martha K. Raynolds, Helga Bültmann, Shawnee A. Kasanke, Gifford Miller, Jonathan H. Raberg

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The Real-Life Effectiveness of Palivizumab for Reducing Hospital Admissions for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Infants Residing in Nunavut by Anna Banerji, Vladimir Panzov, Michael Young, Bonita E Lee, Muhammad Mamdani, B Louise Giles, Marguerite Dennis, Johanne Morel, Danny Bisson, Bosco A Paes, Charles Hui, Jim Mahony

“…BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Nunavut has the highest hospitalization rates for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) worldwide, with rates of 166 per 1000 live births per year <1 year of age. …”
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Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography by Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider

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Exploring integrated tertiary care for children from Nunavut: experiences of families and healthcare providers at the Aakuluk clinic in Ottawa, Canada by Maria Cherba, Nancy Mike, Gwen Healey Akearok, Melissa Weber, Vesa Basha, Brianne Cantwell, Christine Paquette Cannalonga, Yipeng Ge, Radha Jetty

“…The Aakuluk clinic has been operating since 2019 at a tertiary hospital in Ottawa, Canada, to provide care to children from Nunavut. The clinic team includes nurse case managers, physicians, social workers, interpreters, and several community partners. …”
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Characterizing the medical and social complexity experienced by Inuit children and their families from Nunavut who access care at an urban Canadian tertiary level paediatric hospital by Yipeng Ge, Amanda Mills, Victoria McCann, Sara Trincao-Batra, Deepti Reddy, Dennis Newhook, Richard J. Webster, Stephanie Sutherland, Melissa Weber, Radha Jetty

“…We aimed to characterise the medical and social complexities experienced by Inuit children and their families from Nunavut who were cared for at a general paediatrics clinic at an urban tertiary-level hospital located in Eastern Ontario. …”
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Applying the Aajiiqatigiingniq Research Methodology: approaches and lessons learned through collaborative survey development and analysis by Natalie Ann Carter, Shirley Tagalik, Gita Ljubicic

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Environment as a cultural and economic “barrier” of Canada by Ivanović Mirko

“…How much that modern climate change has an affect on “opening” the region of North Canada (the territories of Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest territories). By analyzing climate tables and maps and comparing them, we conclude about the magnitude of climate changes that have occurred in that region in the last few years and decades and their positive and negative effects on the local population. …”
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Insécurité du logement et insécurité alimentaire dans l’Inuit Nunangat by Séraphin Guy Balla Ndegue, Caroline Hervé

“… La crise du logement et l’insécurité alimentaires sont des préoccupations majeures dans les communautés inuites du Canada, et tout particulièrement au Nunavut. Pourtant, bien que les débats autour de ces questions soient particulièrement féconds, la corrélation entre les deux problèmes a jusque-là été faiblement adressée par les recherches anthropologiques. …”
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Profile of Serogroup Y Meningococcal Infections in Canada: Implications for Vaccine Selection by Nicole Le Saux, Julie A Bettinger, Susan Wootton, Scott A Halperin, Wendy Vaudry, David W Scheifele, Raymond Tsang

“…This vaccine was licensed in November 2006 but is not routinely used except in Nunavut, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. To allow a better understanding of the ‘value added’ by a serogroup Y-containing vaccine, it is necessary to have a contemporary profile of Y disease in Canada. …”
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A Scoping Review of Obesity among Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Malek Batal, Stéphane Decelles

“…First Nations on reserve with predominantly measured height and weight (42%–66%) had higher rates of obesity compared to Inuit in Quebec (28%), Nunavut (33%), and Newfoundland and Labrador (41%), while the rates were similar to those in Inuit in Northwest Territories (49%). …”
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Compilation of 10 Years of MIRU-VNTR Data: Canadian National Tuberculosis Laboratory’s Experience by Meenu K. Sharma, Debra Janella, Alisa McGurran, Cindi Corbett, Heather Adam, Pierre-Marie Akochy, David Haldane, Hope MacKenzie, Jessica Minion, Robert Needle, Caroline Newberry, Michael Patterson, Inna Sekirov, Gregory Tyrrell, Hafid Soualhine

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Potential to recover a record of Holocene climate and sea ice from Müller Ice Cap, Canada by David Armond Lilien, Niels Fabrin Nymand, Tamara Annina Gerber, Daniel Steinhage, Daniela Jansen, Laura Thomson, Madeline Myers, Steven Franke, Drew Taylor, Prasad Gogineni, Marcos Lemes, Bo Møllesøe Vinther, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

“…Müller Ice Cap sits on Umingmat Nunaat (Axel Heiberg Island), Nunavut, Canada, ~ 80°N. Its high latitude and elevation suggest it experiences relatively little melt and preserves an undisturbed paleoclimate record. …”
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