Traumatic brain injury in a rural indigenous population in Canada: a community-based approach to surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Indigenous populations are disproportionately affected by traumatic brain injury. These populations rely on large jurisdiction surveillance efforts to inform their prevention strategies, which may not address their needs. We examined the incidence and determinants of traumatic brain injury in an indigenous population in the Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James health region of the province of Quebec and compared them with the incidence and determinants in 2 neighbouring health regions and in the province overall.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study of patients in Quebec admitted to hospital with incident traumatic brain injury, stratified by health region (Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James, Nunavik and Nord-du-Québec), from 2000 to 2012. We use

SUBMITTER: Lasry O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933602 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature