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1. Mental health of young Aboriginal children living in Canada.

Author

Werk, Christine and Xinjie Cui

Subjects
*INDIGENOUS children, *CHILD psychology, *MENTAL health, *WELL-being, *CHILD mental health services
Abstract

The article focuses on a study which examined mental health of young aboriginal children living in Canada. The study used Aboriginal Children's Survey (ACS), conducted by Statistics Canada, a post-censal survey of young Aboriginal children. The study concluded that addressing the modifiable predictors of mental health difficulties could potentially improve the mental wellbeing of young Aboriginal children.

Published
2013
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2. Increasing the quality of life from womb to grave: the importance of pregnancy and birth cohorts.

Author

Kaplan, Bonnie J., Leung, Brenda M., Giesbrecht, Gerald F., Field, Catherine J., Bernier, Francois P., Tough, Suzanne, Xinjie Cui, and Dewey, Deborah

Subjects
*CHILDREN'S health, *EXPERIMENTAL design, *GENE expression, *LONGITUDINAL method, *MOTHERS, *ENVIRONMENTAL exposure, *FETAL development, *SOCIAL history
Abstract

Epigenetics is revealing how “nature is nurtured”, with environmental factors such as nutrition, environmental neurotoxicants, and psychological stress influencing DNA expression. In this current opinion paper, we argue that understanding the dynamic interplay between the genome acquired at conception and environmental exposures throughout life requires pregnancy and birth cohorts, and that greater Canadian national commitment to the infrastructure needed for sustaining such cohorts is warranted. We present a framework that is now being implemented in Alberta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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