Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

BACKGROUND Indigenous peoples in Canada have higher prevalence of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The relative importance of these risk factors on AD risk management is poorly understood. METHODS Relative risks from literature and prevalence of risk factors from Statistics Canada or the First Nations Regional Health Survey were used to determine projected population attr...

Our main aim was to identify and prioritize the obstacles to the implementation of decent work in the industry. The current research was applied in terms of purpose. It was also descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. Due to the large extent of industry sector actors, only one side of the main actors' triangle in the industrial sector in Yazd province was selected as the statistical sam...

The genetic history of a group of populations is usually analyzed by reconstructing a tree of their origins. Reliability of the reconstruction depends on the validity of the hypothesis that genetic differentiation of the populations is mostly due to population fissions followed by independent evolution. If necessary, adjustment for major population admixtures can be made. Dating the fissions re...

Ruobing Qu,* Jingde Tao,* Yongmeng Wang, Youlang Zhou, Geping Wu, Ying Xiao, Chuang-Ying Hu, Xinghong Jiang, and Guang-Yin Xu Institute of Neuroscience, Laboratory for Translational Pain Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; Devision of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; ...

OBJECTIVE To describe how Indigenous Peoples understand how to enhance use of their food systems to promote sustainability, as demonstrated in several food-based interventions. DESIGN Comments contributed by partners from case studies of Indigenous Peoples and their food systems attending an international meeting were implemented with public health interventions at the community level in nine...

Aboriginal peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada. These many diverse peoples have distinct languages, cultures, religious beliefs and political systems. The current dietary practices of Aboriginal peoples pose significant health risks. Interventions to improve the nutritional status of Aboriginal peoples must reflect the realities of how people make food choices and therefore should be...