Global Health—A Circumpolar Perspective

Global health should encompass circumpolar health if it is to transcend the traditional approach of the “rich North” assisting the “poor South.” Although the eight Arctic states are among the world’s most highly developed countries, considerable health disparities exist among regions across the Arct...

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Published in:American Journal of Public Health
Main Authors: Chatwood, Susan, Bjerregaard, Peter, Young, T. Kue
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: American Public Health Association 2012
Subjects:
Commentaries
Arctic
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478014
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594729
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300584
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Summary:Global health should encompass circumpolar health if it is to transcend the traditional approach of the “rich North” assisting the “poor South.” Although the eight Arctic states are among the world’s most highly developed countries, considerable health disparities exist among regions across the Arctic, as well as between northern and southern regions and between indigenous and nonindigenous populations within some of these states.

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