Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
THEME ISSUE
International Polar Year
Research
Invasive Bacterial Diseases in Northern Canada
, Marguerite Lovgren‡, and the Canadian International Circumpolar Surveillance Working GroupTable 1
Total and age-specific population estimates for the Canadian circumpolar region and entire population, 2001 census (1)
| Region | Total | Age, no. (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <2 y | 2–4 y | 5–19 y | 20–64 y | >65 y | ||
| Circumpolar* | 132,956 | 4,849 (3.7) | 7,414 (5.6) | 37,431 (28.2) | 77,823 (58.5) | 5,439 (4.1) |
| Canada† | 30,007,095 | 652,120 (2.2) | 1,044,160 (3.5) | 6,082,585 (20.3) | 18,339,680 (61.1) | 3,888,550 (13.0) |
*Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Québec, and northern Labrador.
†Includes the circumpolar region.
1Current affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation, Research and Surveillance, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
2The Canadian International Circumpolar Surveillance Working Group includes the following members: Colleen Hemsley, Bryce Larke (Yukon Health and Social Services, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada); Cheryl Case, Norine Fraley (Northwest Territories Health and Social Services, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories); Carolina Palacios (Canada Nunavut Health and Social Services, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada); Robert Carlin (Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, Montreal, Québec, Canada, and Ministère de Santé et Services Sociaux, Québec City, Quebec, Canada); Jean-François Proulx (Canada Direction de Santé Publique du Nunavik, Kuujjuak, Québec, Canada, and Ministère de Santé et Services Sociaux, Québec City, Quebec, Canada); Jane McGillivray, Paulette Roberts (Health Labrador Corporation, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada); Louise Jetté, Robert A. Laurence, Louise Ringuette (Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada); Marguerite Lovgren, Gregory Tyrrell (National Centre for Streptococcus, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada); Raymond Tsang (National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada); Shelley L. Deeks, Christine Navarro, Nadine Abboud (Canada Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada); Michael G. Bruce, Tammy Zulz (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska, USA).
