BACKGROUND Despite many improvements, health disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Canada's North persist. While a strong primary health care (PHC) system improves the health of a population, the majority of indigenous communities are very remote, and their access to PHC services is likely reduced. Understanding the challenges in accessing PHC services in these commun...

A high speed of retrieval is very important to developing an effective image cube search algorithm for the remote sensing community. Following the work of Berman and Shapiro, it is shown that a triangle inequality search technique applied to a relevance feedback retrieval algorithm can significantly speed up the search for and retrieval of physical events of interest in large remote-sensing dat...

Grid-enabled solvers are tied to complex grid computing platforms and are therefore diicult to distribute. To make such solvers useful to a wider community of users, remote access tools are needed. iMW provides services for remote submission, monitoring and steering of MW based GLY00]]GKLY00] grid computing applications. CORBA is used to enable communication with the solver. Status information ...

Thls paper explores the potential for airborne remote sensing for atmospheric sciences research. Passive and active techalques from the microwave to visible bands are discussed. It is concluded that technology has progressed sufficiently in several areas that the time Is right to develop and operate new remote sensing instruments for use by the community of atmospheric scientlste as general pur...

Washtenaw County Community Mental Health (CMH) is the primary mental health services provider for more than 5,000 children and adults living with serious mental illness, developmental disabilities, or emotional disturbances in Washtenaw County, Michigan. To improve care coordination with healthcare and social services providers in the area, CMH and other mental health agencies and community par...

CONTEXT Community-based first aid training is the collaborative development of locally relevant emergency response training. The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative was developed, delivered, and evaluated through two intensive 5-day first aid courses. Sachigo Lake First Nation is a remote Aboriginal community of 450 people in northern Ontario, Canada, with no local p...

OBJECTIVES Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was first reported in remote regions of Western Australia (WA) in 1992 and is now the predominant MRSA isolated in the State. To gain insights into the emergence of CA-MRSA, 2146 people living in 11 remote WA communities were screened for colonization with S. aureus. METHODS Antibiogram analysis, contour-cla...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates the burden of cardiovascular risk markers in people with and without diabetes in a remote Indigenous Australian community, based on their HbA1c concentration. METHODS This study included health screening exams of 1187 remote Indigenous residents over 15 years old who represented 70% of the age-eligible community. The participants were stratified by HbA1c int...

OBJECTIVE To describe the nutritional quality of community-level diets in remote northern Australian communities. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A multisite 12-04 assessment (July 2010 to June 2011) of community-level diet in three remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, linking data from food outlets and food services to the Australian Food and Nutrient Database. MAIN OU...

Australia is the only developed country to suffer trachoma and it is only found in remote Indigenous communities. In 2009, trachoma prevalence was 14%, but through screening, treatment and health promotion, rates had fallen to 4% in 2012. More work needs to be done to sustain these declining rates. In 2012, 25% of screened communities still had endemic trachoma and 8% had hyperendemic trachoma....