Health and disease among the Lapps

This article is based on studies of existing, rather limited, reports on health and disease among the Lapp population, and on my personal experience during 16 years of ‘front-line’ health work (1945–61) in northernmost Sweden. My work in Jukkasjärvi, Norrbotten county, some 300 km north of the Arcti...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Haraldson, Sixten R. S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1983
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Jukkasjärvi
Polar Record
Norrbotten
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400019239
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400019239
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Summary:This article is based on studies of existing, rather limited, reports on health and disease among the Lapp population, and on my personal experience during 16 years of ‘front-line’ health work (1945–61) in northernmost Sweden. My work in Jukkasjärvi, Norrbotten county, some 300 km north of the Arctic Circle in the heartland of the Lapp world, provided daily contacts with Lapps and their problems; extensive travel and official field visits to camps and settlements helped to give me detailed knowledge of social and health conditions among the Lapp population.

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