The cost of lower respiratory tract infections hospital admissions in the Canadian Arctic [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013 Background . Inuit infants who reside in the Nunavut (NU) regions of Arctic Canada have extremely high rates of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) associated with significant health expenditures, but the costs in other regions of Arctic Canada ...
Anna Banerji +5 more
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Effects of increase in temperature and open water on transmigration and access to health care by the Nenets reindeer herders in northern Russia [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013 Background . The indigenous Nenets reindeer herders in northern Russia annually migrate several hundred kilometers between summer and winter pastures.
Philippe Amstislavski +5 more
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The international biological program/human adaptability studies among the Skolt Sami in Finland (1966–1970) [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2012 Background: The population is increasingly lighter pigmented moving in a northward direction in Europe until reaching the Arctic Circle, where the Samis (Lapps) are clearly more pigmented.
Henrik Forsius +2 more
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Creating exclusive breastfeeding knowledge translation tools with First Nations mothers in Northwest Territories, Canada [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2016 Background: Breastfeeding is an ideal method of infant feeding affecting lifelong health, and yet the uptake of breastfeeding in some Indigenous communities in Canada's north is low.
Pertice Moffitt, Raissa Dickinson
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Local perspectives of the ability of HIA stakeholder engagement to capture and reflect factors that impact Alaska Native health [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2014 Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) is a process used to inform planning and decision making in a range of sectors by identifying potential positive and negative health effects of proposed projects, programs, or policies. Stakeholder engagement is
Jen Jones +2 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 Objective: To assess the proportion of caregivers of children and patients who received malaria prevention counseling from their healthcare provider at the time of outpatient malaria treatment.
Godpower Chinedu Michael +4 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 Objective: To assess the extent of existing published evidence on cholera and to characterize the epidemiologic data of cholera in Nepal. Methods: We conducted a literature scoping review by summarizing published literature reporting on cholera in Nepal ...
Chulwoo Rhee +6 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019 Objective: To evaluate the ability of new injury severity score (NISS), acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II), Glasgow coma scale (GCS), a combination of NISS and GCS, a combination of APACHE II and GCS, a combination of NISS and ...
Xiao-Yuan Ma +9 more
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Factors related to fruit, vegetable and traditional food consumption which may affect health among Alaska Native People in Western Alaska [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2012 Objectives: Determine intake of fruits, vegetables and traditional foods (TF), availability of foods, and attitudes towards increasing their consumption.
Jennifer S. Johnson +2 more
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The best of two worlds: how the Greenland Board of Nutrition has handled conflicting evidence about diet and health [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2012 The traditional diet in Greenland consists to a large extent of meat and organs of seal and other marine mammals, which is polluted by POPs and mercury. These substances are present in the blood of Greenlanders in concentrations well above international ...
Peter Bjerregaard, Gert Mulvad
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