Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russia
The indigenous peoples of Europe and Russia comprise the Inuit in Greenland, the Sami in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia and forty officially recognized ethnic minority groups in northern Russia plus a few larger-population indigenous peoples in Russia. While the health of the Inuit and...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.73 2023-12-31T10:07:22+01:00 Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russia Bjerregaard, Peter 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.73 unknown Oxford University Press Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health reference-entry 2019 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.73 2023-12-06T08:42:20Z The indigenous peoples of Europe and Russia comprise the Inuit in Greenland, the Sami in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia and forty officially recognized ethnic minority groups in northern Russia plus a few larger-population indigenous peoples in Russia. While the health of the Inuit and Sami has been well studied, information about the health of the indigenous peoples of Russia is considerably scarcer. The overall health of the Sami is in many aspects not very different from that of their non-indigenous neighbors in northern Scandinavia; the health of the Inuit is similar across Greenland and North America and far less favorable than that of Denmark, southern Canada and the lower 48 American states, respectively; the health of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north is poor, partly due to poverty and alcohol. Book Part Greenland inuit Northern Norway Russian North sami Oxford University Press (via Crossref) |
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The indigenous peoples of Europe and Russia comprise the Inuit in Greenland, the Sami in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia and forty officially recognized ethnic minority groups in northern Russia plus a few larger-population indigenous peoples in Russia. While the health of the Inuit and Sami has been well studied, information about the health of the indigenous peoples of Russia is considerably scarcer. The overall health of the Sami is in many aspects not very different from that of their non-indigenous neighbors in northern Scandinavia; the health of the Inuit is similar across Greenland and North America and far less favorable than that of Denmark, southern Canada and the lower 48 American states, respectively; the health of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north is poor, partly due to poverty and alcohol. |
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Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russia |
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Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russia |
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Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russia |
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