title: A political economic history of medical and dental care in Nunavut, Canada.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the historical development of medical and dental care in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ethnographic case study using political economy as a mode of explanation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participant observations, document reviews and stakeholder interviews, conducted over a four-year period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is a clear and now long-term movement from state and professionally controlled health care delivery to Indigenous control over care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Indigenous groups increasingly hold control over health care delivery through a complex form of management that straddles both public and private organisational spheres.
authors.affiliation: Community Dental Health Services Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. carlos.quinonez@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Carlos R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Quiñonez
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001110:Arctic Regions; D002170:Canada; D003256:Community Participation / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D003729:Dental Care / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D006296:Health Services / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D004930:Inuit / Q000266:history*; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D011057:Politics; D012423:Rural Health / Q000266:history