Health Transitions in Arctic Populations

Description

The Arctic regions are inhabited by diverse populations, both indigenous and non-indigenous. Health Transitions in Arctic Populations describes and explains changing health patterns in these areas, how particular patterns came about, and what can be done to improve the health of Arctic peoples. This study correlates changes in health status with major environmental, social, economic, and political changes in the Arctic. T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard seek commonalities in the experiences of different peoples while recognizing their considerable diversity. They focus on five Arctic regions - Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia, offering a general overview of the geography, history, economy, population characteristics, health status, and health services of each. The discussion moves on to specific indigenous populations (Inuit, Dene, and Sami), major health determinants and outcomes, and, finally, an integrative examination of what can be done to improve the health of circumpolar peoples. Health Transitions in Arctic Populations offers both an examination of key health issues in the north and a vision for the future of Arctic inhabitants.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Health Transitions in Arctic Populations

  • 2008-06-28
  • 496 pages
  • Ebook
  • University of Toronto Press

Similar books

• 

  Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic: An interdisciplinary analysis

  By Paivi Naskali, Marjaana Seppänen, Shahnaj Begum

  ... Health, 66, pp. 199–214. Hinzman, L. D., Bettez, H. N., Bolton, W.R., Chapin, F. S, Dyurgerov, M. B., Fastie, C. L. ... Populations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 163. Hassler, S., Sjölander, P. and Janlert, U. (2008) ...

• 

  Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives

  By Frank Trovato, Anatole Romaniuk

  ... health indicators: Sources, data, and maps. Oulu, Finland: Circumpolar Health Supplements No.3. Retrieved from http://www.ijch.fi/CHS/ CHS%202008(3).pdf Young, T.K., & Bjerregaard, P. (Eds.). (2008). Health transitions in Arctic populations ...

• 

  Circumpolar Health Atlas

  By T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat

  Richly illustrated with maps, charts, tables, and images, this atlas includes overviews of the physical environment that influences human health; cultures and languages of northern peoples; health conditions of children and youth; and ...

• 

  SLiCA: Arctic living conditions: Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Saami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the...

  By Birger Poppel

  The SLiCA anthology probes into the theoretical and methodological background of the SLiCA project, the research design, the ethical principles applied and introduces examples of the wealth of information available on the livelihoods and ...

• 

  Lessons From The Arctic: The Role of Regional Governments in International Affairs

  By Emily Tsui, Thomas S Axworthy, Sara French

  ... health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action.” Philosophical ... populations,” International Journal of Circumpolar Health 69, no.2 (2010): 111–128. Hamelin, Louis-Edmond. Canadian Nodicity ...

• 

  Nunavut: A Health System Profile

  By Gregory P. Marchildon, Renée Torgerson

  “Health Systems Performance Measurement Systems in Canada: How Well Do They Perform in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Contexts? ... Canada. 2009a. Canada Health Act Annual Report, 2007–2008. Ottawa: Health Canada. – 2009b.

• 

  Arctic Social Indicators

  By Nordic Council of Ministers

  ... Transitions in Arctic Populations. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada. A FOLLOW-UP TO THE AHDR 3 Joan Nymand Larsen and. Hamilton, L.C., C.R. Colocousis, and S.T.F. Johansen,. 2004b. Migration from ... Health and population. 45.

• 

  Climate Change and Global Health

  By Colin Butler

  This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political ...

• 

  The New Arctic

  By Joan Nymand Larsen, Birgitta Evengård, Øyvind Paasche

  ... health services developed in northern Norway serving Sami (known as SANKS). These improvements occurred in the ... populations are undergoing rapid social and environmental changes that are reflected in their evolving patterns of health ...

• 

  Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages

  By Gail Fondahl, Joan Nymand Larsen

  The goals of the second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages – are to provide an update to the first AHDR (2004) in terms of an assessment of the state of Arctic human development; ...