This study describes the mortality from injuries in the Cree communities of northern Quebec for the period 1982-91. Comparison of different data sources for the completeness of ascertainment of injury mortality showed that no single source of information provided a complete count of deaths. Coroners' reports provided some details on the circumstances of fatal events but would gain usefulness if police and coroners employed a more structured approach to the collection of information on the circumstances of injury deaths. Circumstances of deaths were obtained from mortality interviews with relatives of victims. Drownings were the most common cause of injury death. Groups at high risk of drowning were adult males during boating and snowmobile transport for hunting and toddlers not supervised during their play near the water. None of the victims had worn a personal flotation device. Motor vehicle fatalities affected adult males and were often associated with acute alcohol ingestion. Few victims wore safety belts. Suicides affected mostly males. Half of the suicides resulted from gunshot wounds and 70 percent of victims had ingested alcohol prior to the event. Detailed information on the determinants of injury mortality should help in establishing injury prevention strategies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.55489 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Damestoy, Nicole |
| Contributors | Barss, Peter (advisor), Robinson, Elizabeth (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001426005, proquestno: AAIMM00015, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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