Background Indigenous Canadians have high rates of risk factors for chronic kidney disease
(CKD), in particular diabetes. Furthermore, they have increased rates of complications …

Canadian indigenous (First Nations) have rates of kidney failure that are 2- to 4-fold higher
than the non-indigenous general Canadian population. As such, a strategy of targeted …

What do we know about what children know about their own knowledge and learning?
What do children do about their knowledge? And how do they understand these things? For …

Background: Screening the general population for Chronic Kidney Disease is not currently
recommended. Rural and remote Canadian First Nations people suffer a disproportionate …

Objective To describe the prevalence of mental health comorbidity in children with type 2
diabetes compared to a matched population without diabetes and children with type 1 diabetes…

The Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that changes
will be made in the ways in which its schools are managed. At present, most decisions are …

Introduction Rural and remote indigenous individuals have a high burden of chronic kidney
disease (CKD) when compared to the general population. However, it has not been …

We report results of writing samples of six Emirati children aged four to four and a half years
collected at monthly intervals over an eight month period (the kindergarten academic year). …

Purpose of program: Access to health care services remains a significant barrier for many
Indigenous people’s living in rural and remote regions of Canada. Driven by geographical …

In this chapter, we report on the current situation of emergent literacy and language in the
emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (hereafter, UAE). In 2010, Abu Dhabi …