Background: Women with previous female genital mutilation (sometimes referred to as circumcision) are migrating, with increasing frequency, to countries where this practice is uncommon. Many health care professionals in these countries lack experience in assisting women with female genital mutilation during pregnancy and birth, and they are usually untrained in this aspect of care. Somali…
Objectives: To determine the age-specific hospitalization rate for rotavirus-associated diarrhea in Canadian children during the seasonal outbreak, and to characterize children and their households, for assessment of the need for a rotavirus vaccine. Design: Prospective multisite cohort study.Settings and Participants: Children with an admission diagnosis of diarrhea admitted to 18 hospitals serving 132 study census…
Objective : To determine the incidence of back pain in children admitted with sickle cell disease so as to increase awareness of this disease in black children presenting with back pain or discomfort. Design : A retrospective review. Setting : The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, a tertiary care, university affiliated centre. Patients…
This article is about the impact of becoming Black on ESL learning, that is, the interrelation between identity and learning. It contends that a group of French-speaking immigrant and refugee continental African youths who are attending an urban Franco-Ontarian high school in southwestern Ontario, Canada, enters a social imaginary—a discursive space in which they are…
Background: The impact of HIV infection on tuberculosis (TB) rates in Quebec has not been fully established. Because concurrent HIV infection is the single most important factor in TB reactivation, the authors used Quebec AIDS surveillance data to quantify the extent of TB among reported AIDS cases and to identify the characteristics of AIDS patients…
We aimed to determine the prevalence of HIV infection and associated risk factors among Montrealers of Haitian origin. We carried out a voluntary, anonymous survey in 7 primary care medical clinics in Montreal among 5039 persons aged 15 to 49 years born in Haiti or with at least one parent born in Haiti. The participation…
In 1946, Professor F.F. Tisdall, an eminent nutrition scientist of the time, predicted that childhood vitamin D deficiency would soon no longer be a public health problem.1 His optimism stemmed from the knowledge that vitamin D deficiency rickets could easily be prevented by exposure of the skin to sunlight or by the addition of a…
Age differences in attitudes of kindergarten and third-grade Black children from a majority-Black school in a Canadian city toward Blacks, Whites, and Amerindians, were examined on both the single-response Preschool Racial Attitudes Measure (PRAM) and a new multiple-response measure. On both measures, third graders were more pro-Black than kindergartners. Pro-Black biases were much stronger on…
Cette recherche compare l'incidence et les caractéristiques des signalements faits au service de protection de l'enfance selon deux groupes ethniques. Les taux d'incidence sont calculés à partir de l'ensemble des signalements reçus (2854) par les services de protection entre le 17 juillet 1988 et le 31 mars 1989. Un échantillon de 953 signalements sert à…
This paper presents a preliminary and exploratory analysis of the general profile of the black family in Canada, based on data from the 1986 census. The primary focus is the interrelationship of family and household type, marital status, household income , and possible consequences for children, given the context of racism. The paper begins with…
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