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Determinants of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Canadian Inuit Adolescent Populations

2006· article· en· W2040734886 on OpenAlex
Audrey Steenbeek, Mark Tyndall, Richard Rothenberg, Samuel Sheps

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Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health Nursing · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicIndigenous Studies and Ecology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAcculturationPublic healthIndigenousPopulationPovertyMedicineSyphilisAdolescent healthGonorrheaEnvironmental healthGeographyEthnic groupPolitical scienceImmunologyNursing

Abstract

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The health status of Canadian Inuit is considerably lower than that of their ancestors. The introduction of previously unknown diseases (e.g., tuberculosis), substance abuse (e.g., alcohol), and Western customs have permanently altered this population. As a result of Western assimilation, many Inuit have distanced themselves from their land and severed their ancestral ties. Consequently, many are now mired in a state of widespread poverty and malnutrition and have severe health problems (e.g., addictions) and communicable diseases, such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The purpose of this case report is to provide an overview of the STI crisis that exists among Canadian Inuit. More specifically, this case study is intended to assist public health nurses working in Inuit communities in understanding how certain determinants (e.g., Westernization, culture) may influence STI transmission among Inuit youth and, how to incorporate these determinants into nursing practice. Inuit adolescents have been subjected to intense acculturation pressures that do not exist for other adolescent populations. These pressures are creating problems for youth in their transition from childhood and adulthood; they also impact on the struggle to establish their own identity, caught between two opposing cultures: their native culture and the wider Canadian one.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.170
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.326 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it