A Survey for Federally Listed Grassland Birds at First Nations Reserves

Hepatitis A among residents of First Nations Reserves in British Columbia, 1991-1996.

BACKGROUND Hepatitis A spreads by the fecal-oral route. We hypothesize that it is more common in Aboriginal communities because of poverty, crowded housing and inadequate or substandard water and sewage systems. METHODS We tabulated on-reserve cases reported to First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada. We obtained information on community water supply, sewage disposal and mean pop...

Prevalence and correlates of purchasing contraband cigarettes on First Nations reserves in Ontario, Canada.

AIMS Non-First Nations people purchasing cigarettes on First Nations reserves do not pay applicable taxes. We estimated prevalence and identified correlates of purchasing contraband cigarettes on reserves; we also quantified the share of contraband purchased on reserves relative to reported total cigarette consumption and the associated financial impact on taxation revenue. DESIGN Data from t...

Prevalence and risk factors of asthma in First Nations children living on reserves in Canada.

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence and determine the risk factors of asthma in First Nations children aged 0 to 11 years living on reserves in Canada. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we considered the data collected as part of the First Nations Regional Health Survey involving 6,657 children living in 238 First Nations communities in the 10 Canadian provinces, the Northwest Territori...

Monitoring Grassland Birds in Nocturnal Migration

We censused vocalizations of night-migrating birds by making continual audio recordings of the night sky from a transect of seven recording stations across New York State in fall 1991-1993 and at one recording station in south Texas in spring 1995. Bird calls on these audio recordings were later detected by human listening and by automatic sound-detection software. Vocalizations of several migr...

Conservation of grassland birds in the Northeast