The Arctic faces multiple pressures including climate change, shifting demographics, human health risks, social justice imbalances, governance issues, and expanding resource extraction.
J. G. Ernakovich+8 more
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Access to medicines in the Arctic districts of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Access to medicines is intrinsically linked to fundamental human rights to health and life. The need to make medicines more accessible is articulated in strategic planning documents, including the Strategy for the Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and National Security until 2035.
S.M. Tarabukina, Anna Shishigina
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Arctic Suicide, Social Medicine, and the Purview of Care in Global Mental Health.
Youth suicide is a significant health disparity in circumpolar indigenous communities, with devastating impacts at individual, family, and community levels. This study draws on structured interviews and ethnographic work with health professionals in the Alaskan Arctic to examine the meanings assigned to Alaska Native youth suicide, as well as the ...
Lucas Trout, Lisa Wexler
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“Arctic Dog Disease” and its Relationship to Rabies [Based on papers by P. J. G. Plummer in the Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine, June 1947, pp. 154–60, and November 1947, pp. 330–34.] [PDF]
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Improving and preserving cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength and adiposity through a complex lifestyle intervention in community-dwelling older adults with elevated cardiometabolic risk: study protocol for the RESTART randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Introduction As the global population ages, the incidence of cardiometabolic diseases and associated healthcare costs rise. There is a critical need for preventive interventions enabling long-lasting treatment effects to address the decline in physical ...
Jonas Johansson+4 more
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Fundamentals of Arctic and Cold Weather Medicine and Dentistry, by H.B. Eisberg and J.E. Owens
M. G. W.
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The Russian Vector of Japan’s Policy in the Arctic
The article addresses the Russian vector of Japan’s Arctic policy. The main areas of Japan’s interest in cooperation with Russia in the Arctic region are energy, transport, and security.
D. V. Streltsov
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A series of events in honor of the centenary of the Polar Experiment Station of VIR founded by Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov, was opened by the Second Scientific Conference “Genetic Resources and Genetic Technologies for the Development of Northern ...
E. K. Khlestkina+3 more
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Specific environmental health concerns and medical challenges in Аrctic and sub-Аrctic regions
The paper concentrates on reviewing results of studies that address the influence exerted by climate change in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions on local population health, ecological situation and ongoing sanitary-epidemiological processes. The systemic
J. Reis, N.V. Zaitseva, P. Spencer
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