Circumpolar Health : : Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Yellowknife, NWT / / ed. by Roy J. Shephard, S. Itoh.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adler-Nissen, J.,; Allen, C.,; Andersen, K.L.,; Andersson, R.,; Armbrust, J.M.,; Atcheson, J.D.,; Bang, H.O.,; Baxter, J.D.,; Berg, Lisbet,; Berg, O.,; Bernstein, A.O.,; Berry, J.W.,; Bloom, J.,; Bloom, J.D.,; Boesen, E.M.,; Brett, B.,; Brodovsky, D.,; Brown, Carolyn V.,; Brown, G.W.,; Bryngelsson, C.,; Cameron, D.G.,; Cass, E. Elizabeth,; Charlton, K.M.,; Cooper, K.E.,; Draper, H.H.,; Duchek, M.,; Dyerberg, J.,; Edgren, J.,; Eidus, L.,; Eriksson, A.W.,; Eskola, M.-R.,; Falkmer, S.,; Feigin, R.A.,; Fellman, J.,; Ferrari, Harriet E.,; Finell, B.,; Fish, D.G.,; Fitzgerald, E.J.,; Forsius, H.,; Forsius, Harriet,; Freedman, D.K.,; Freeman, R.S.,; Fugelli, P.,; Godin, G.,; Granberg, P.O.,; Greidanus, P.,; Grzybowski, S.,; Hansson, Hasse,; Haraldson, S.S.R.,; Hart Hansen, J.P.,; Harvald, B.J.,; Harvey, Elinor B.,; Hasunen, K.,; Hendzel, M.,; Hildes, J.A.,; Hjørne, N.,; Hobart, C.W.,; Hodgkin, M.M.,; Hofer, P.-Å.,; Holubowsky, M.,; Isokoski, M.,; Jamieson, J.,; Jamison, P.L.,; Katz, S.H.,; Kaznacheyev, V.P.,; Kirjarinta, M.,; Kirjarinta, Mikko,; Koch, E.A.,; Kraus, R.F.,; Lehmann, W.,; Leung, D.,; Lewin, T.,; Linderholm, H.,; Ling, D.,; Lobban, Mary C.,; Lozovoy, V.P.,; Lupin, A.J.,; Luukka, P.,; Lynge, Inge,; Lyons, R.,; Lyons, R.B.,; Malcolmson, S.A.,; Martin, J.D.,; Masnick, G.S.,; Mattsson, B.,; Mayhall, J.T.,; McLean, D.M.,; Medd, L.M.,; Mendelsohn, B.,; Metayer, M.,; Miller, Sue M.,; Morison, M.M.,; Mussell, Bill,; Myers, W.W.,; Nijenhuis, L.E.,; Olsen, G.Á.,; O’Hara, W.,; Palva, A.,; Palva, H.L.A.,; Palva, I.P.,; Patton, J.F.,; Pekkarinen, M.,; Pollak, B.,; Porsild, R.,; Price, Betty,; Rantakallio, P.,; Reinhard, K.R.,; Richards, W.,; Richards, W.W.,; Rode, A.,; Sabi, T.,; Sahi, T.,; Salokannel, S.J.,; Sampath, H.M.,; Sayed, Judith E.,; Schaefer, O.,; Schwarz, M.R.,; Sedov, K.R.,; Seitamo, L.,; Shephard, R.J.,; Silliman, Rebecca A.,; Skrobak-Kaczynski, J.,; Smith, Alice K.,; Smith, Marcia C.,; Spady, D.W.,; Spencer, Hope,; Stillner, Marianne,; Stillner, V.,; Styblo, K.,; Sundberg, S.,; Tabel, H.,; Taylor, W.C.,; Tester, F.J.,; Thomas, G.W.,; Titley, K.C.,; Virtaranta, K.,; Väisänen, E.J.,; Väänänen, M.,; Wallenberg, L.R.,; Wedin, B.,; Williams, J.H.,; Winblad, B.,; Woolf, C.,; van Loghem, E.,; van den Berg-Loonen, E.,; von Bonsdorff, C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Itoh, S.,; Shephard, Roy J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (690 p.)

This volume presents in tightly edited form more than ninety papers from the third international symposium on circumpolar health, held in Yellowknife in July 1974. The conference brought together physicians and paramedical professionals from all the circumpolar nations. They discussed methods of delivering health care and education to isolated communities, the epidemiology and pathology of current epidemics, and the many physiological, social, psychological, and medical problems arising from the sudden acculturation of indigenous northern peoples to a western life-style. Physiologists and nutritionists will be interested in the effects of changes from natural to processed foods and of diminished levels of physical activity; sociologists and psychologists in adaptations to rapid social change and the attendant problems of alcoholism and violence; epidemiologists in the spread and subsequent control of bacteria, viruses, and parasites previously unknown in northern communities; physicians in such common northern problems as upper respiratory and each infections; dental surgeons in the impact of changing foods on oral health; and geneticists and anthropologists in the potential for study of small communities of a common basic stock which have lived in isolation for many centuries. Many of the problems encountered by white workers in the north -- exposure to cold, venereal disease, unusual rhythms of light and darkness, responses to isolation, and even relationships between isolated professionals and their university-based supervisors -- are also discussed.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Keynote address -- CURRENT TRENDS IN ARCTIC MEDICAL RESEARCH -- Current trends in arctic medical research in the Nordic countries with special reference to Sweden -- Current trends of medical research in Greenland -- Commentary -- BIORHYTHMS, COLD PHYSIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY -- Seasonal variations in daily patterns of urinary excretion by Eskimo subjects -- The relationship between physiological and biological mechanisms of human adaptation -- Mechanisms of human cold adaptation -- Regional sweating in Eskimos and Caucasians -- Is cold-diuresis a pressor diuresis? -- Renal function after core and surface rewarming of hypothermic dogs -- Cases of paradoxical undressing by people exposed to severe hypothermia -- Commentaries -- FITNESS AND WORK PHYSIOLOGY -- Working capacity of circumpolar peoples -- On the body composition of the Eskimo -- The maximal oxygen uptake in adult Lapps and Skolts -- Health of arctic fishermen as related to occupational work capacity -- Energy balance of an Eskimo community -- Changes in body composition during an arctic winter exercise -- Commentaries -- NUTRITION AND METABOLISM -- A review of recent nutritional research in the arctic -- Biochemical indices of nutrition of the lglooligmiut -- The dietary intake of Finnish Skolt children -- Investigation of blood lipids and food composition of Greenlandic Eskimos -- Isolated adult-type lactose malabsorption in Finnish Lapps -- Dietary habits of Greenland school children -- Commentaries -- GENETIC CONSIDERATIONS -- Current genetic trends in the Greenlandic population -- The origin of the Lapps in the light of recent genetic studies -- Demographic studies on the lnari Lapps in Finland -- Genetic polymorphisms in Utsjoki Lapps -- Correlation between glutathione reductase activity and acid phosphatase phenotypes: a biochemical population genetic study in Skolts and other Lapps -- Erythrocyte alanine amino transferase polymorphism in a Lappish population -- Unusual hereditary diseases in Sweden 201 Unusual hereditary diseases in northern Sweden: a review, with particular reference to primary familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy, Urbach- Wiethe disease, and Huntington's chorea -- Immunological homeostasis in a population migrated to polar regions -- Commentaries -- GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Growth of Eskimo children in northwestern Alaska -- Growth, development, and fitness of the Canadian Eskimo -- Secular changes in Lapps of northern Finland -- Skeletal maturation of the hand and wrist in Finnish Lapps -- Feeding practices and growth of lgloolik infants -- Trends in fertility in a northern Alaska community -- Commentaries -- ARCTIC EPIDEMIOLOGY -- Epidemiology of some non-infectious diseases in eastern Siberia -- Leukaemia in northern Finland -- The changing pattern of neoplastic disease in Canadian Eskimos -- Cancer in native populations in Labrador -- Allergy in the Yukon Territories: a review of fifty-six patients, with a botanical study of allergenic flora -- Commentaries -- ZOONOTIC AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- Mosquito vectors of California encephalitis virus in a Canadian subarctic region -- Epizootiology of rabies in Canada -- Parasites of Eskimos at lgloolik and Hall Beach, Northwest Territories -- Commentaries -- PULMONARY FUNCTION AND CHEST DISEASES -- Pulmonary function of Canadian Eskimos -- Chronic lung disease and cardiovascular consequences in lglooligmiut -- Tuberculosis in Finnish Lapland -- The relevance of studies of tuberculosis in Eskimos to antituberculous program planning -- Methodology and results of phenotyping isoniazid inactivators -- Intermittent chemotherapy of tuberculosis patients rapidly inactivating isoniazid -- Pathogenesis of urogenital tuberculosis: an experimental study in guinea pigs -- Commentaries -- ARCTIC OPHTHALMOLOGY -- Pterygium, climatic keratopathy, and pinguecula of the eyes in arctic and subarctic populations -- Types of strabismus occurring among Indians and Eskimos of the N'orthwest Territories -- Commentaries -- OTITIS MEDIA -- Ear disease among the Eskimo population of the Baffin zone -- Ear disease in western Canadian natives - a changing entity - and the results of tympanoplasty -- Chronic otitis media in the Keewatin district -- The problem of chronic otitis media in northern Finland -- Audiological problems of Eskimos 409 Audiological problems of the Eskimo population in the Baffin zone -- Commentaries -- DENTAL HEALTH -- Inuit culture change and oral health: a four-year study -- The dental disease status of Indians resident in the Sioux Lookout zone of northern Ontario -- Epidemiology of oral conditions in Skolt Lapps -- Commentaries -- CHILD HEALTH -- The Northwest Territories perinatal and infant mortality study: infant mortality in the Northwest Territories, 1973 -- Design of the Northwest Territories perinatal and infant mortality and morbidity study -- The effects of social and economic background on the hospitalization of children during the first five years of life -- Changing health hazards in infancy and childhood in northern Canada -- Socio-economic correlates of mortality and morbidity among Inuit infants -- Child abuse in Alaska -- Commentaries -- MENTAL HEAL TH AND CULTURAL CHANGE -- Eskimo personality and society - yesterday and today -- Modernity, social structure, and mental health of Eskimos in the Canadian eastern arctic -- Acculturative stress in northern Canada: ecological, cultural, and psychological factors -- Psychological adaptation of Skolt Lapp children to cultural change -- Influence of environment on the physical and psychic development of Skolt Lapp and north Finnish children -- Mental health in northern Finland -- Psychiatric consultation and social work at a secondary school for Eskimo, Indian, and Aleut students in Alaska -- ''Experience statements'' of Alaskan native high school students -- Adaptation to an extreme environment -- A model for psychiatric education in the North -- Psychiatric consultation to the eastern Canadian arctic communities -- Alcohol problems in western Greenland -- Criminal homicide in Greenland -- Commentaries -- HEALTH CARE DELIVERY -- Evaluation of Alaskan Native Health Service: alternative approaches to meeting basic health needs -- Comparison of health care in Alaska and Scandinavia -- Alaska native regional corporations and community mental health -- Inception of a'' grass roots'' mental health delivery system -- Consultant-general practitioner interaction in a northern university clinic -- The impact of two-way audiovideo satellite communication and a computerized health records system on the management of a rural arctic health program -- Involvement of natives in health care -- Native community health auxiliaries: developments in northern Canada, 1973-4 -- Indian and Eskimo health auxiliaries -- Experience in the clinical training of nurses for isolated northern regions -- The outpost nurse: role and activities in northern Canada -- Physicians' assistants in Alaska -- The WAMI program: a three-year progress report on regionalized medical education in the north -- Commentaries -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND ARCTIC ECOLOGY -- Resource exploitation and the health of western arctic man -- Housing and sickness in South Greenland: a sociomedical investigation -- Community attitudes and perception of waste management problems at Resolute, Northwest Territories -- Preventive measures against venereal diseases -- Cannikin nuclear explosion: human surveillance -- The significance of reports of mercury in various body tissues -- Mercury content of Iglooligmiut hair -- Commentaries -- List of contributors -- Index of authors