Lower thriving among females with hearing impairment than males - a cross-sectional study of 185 primary and secondary students in Greenland

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Cecilie Friis Skovsen, Jakob Schmidt Jensen, Ramon Gordon Jensen, Christina Schnohr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021
• Subjects: “hearing impairment”; “social factors“; “adolescence”; “children”; “greenland”; “thriving”; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Greenland; Sisimiut; Circumpolar Health; greenlandic; International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1921995; https://doaj.org/article/01b1039379144a2581d7810f0337eaa5

The prevalence of ear infections and hearing i mpairment among Greenlandic children is amajor public health problem, and studies investigating the association between hearing impairment and thriving among Greenlandic children are scarce. The aim of this study was to examine the association between h...