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Health transitions in Arctic populations
- Title
- Health transitions in Arctic populations / edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xxi, 485 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Subjects
- Arctic regions
- Arctic Regions
- Public Health
- Inuit
- Indians, North American
- Health Status
- Health Transition
- Public health > Arctic regions
- Health transition > Arctic regions
- Arctique
- Peuples de l'Arctique > Santé et hygiène
- Santé publique > Arctique
- Autochtones > Santé et hygiène > Arctique
- Arctic peoples > Health and hygiene
- Transition épidémiologique > Arctique
- Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Arctic regions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-478).
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard -- Pt. 1. Regions -- 2. Greenland / Peter Bjerregaard and Thomas Stensgaard -- 3. Northern Canada / Kue Young -- 4. Alaska / James Berner -- 5. Arctic Russia / Andrew Kozlov and Dmitry Lisitsyn -- 6. Northern Fennoscandia / Sven Hassler, Per Sjolander and Urban Janlert -- Pt. 2. Peoples -- 7. Inuit / Peter Bterregaard and Kue Young -- 8. Dene / Kue Young -- 9. Sami / Sven Hassler, Siv Kvernmo and Andrew Kozlov -- Pt. 3. Determinants -- 10. Environment and Living Conditions / Peter Bjerregaard, James Berner and Jon Oyvind Odland -- 11. Diet, Nutrition, and Physical Activity / Peter Bjerregaard and Marit Jorgensen -- 12. Smoking, Alcohol, and Substance Use / Anna Rita Spein -- 13. Genetic Susceptibility / Robert Hegele and Rebecca Pollex -- 14. Cold Exposure, Adaptation, and Performance / Tiina Makinen and Mika Rytkonen -- Pt. 4. Consequences -- 15. Infectious Diseases / Anders Koch, Michael Bruce and Preben Homoe -- 16. Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, and Obesity / Marit Jorgensen and Kue Young -- 17. Cancer / Jeppe Friborg and Sven Hassler -- 18. Injuries and Violence / Kue Young and Sven Hassler -- 19. Mental Health and Suicide / Anne Silviken and Siv Kvernmo -- 20. Maternal and Child Health / Jon Oyvind Odland and Laura Arbour -- Pt. 5. Strategies -- 21. Improving the Health of Arctic Populations / Peter Bjerregaard, Kue Young and James Berner.
- ISBN
- 9780802091093 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0802091091 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780802094018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0802094015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC
- ocn181602797
- 181602797
- SCSB-5424917
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries