The polar bear in the room: diseases of poverty in the Arctic

In the face of global warming, budgetary austerity and impoverished Arctic residents, the nations of the circumpolar region are presented with a number of difficult choices regarding the provision of health care to the far-flung and isolated regions of their northernmost provinces. Complicating that...

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Published in:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Main Author: Nelson, Chris
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Co-Action Publishing 2013
Subjects:
Supplement 1
2013
Arctic
Global warming
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753144
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984296
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3753144 2023-05-15T14:48:58+02:00 The polar bear in the room: diseases of poverty in the Arctic Nelson, Chris 2013-08-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753144 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984296 https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21161 en eng Co-Action Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753144 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984296 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21161 © 2013 Chris Nelson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Supplement 1 2013 Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21161 2013-09-05T04:18:13Z In the face of global warming, budgetary austerity and impoverished Arctic residents, the nations of the circumpolar region are presented with a number of difficult choices regarding the provision of health care to the far-flung and isolated regions of their northernmost provinces. Complicating that picture is the reality of neglected tropical diseases in areas far from their perceived normal equatorial range as well as endemic food-borne diseases, including protozoan and helminth parasites, respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases and vaccine-preventable illnesses. Text Arctic Global warming PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic International Journal of Circumpolar Health 72 1 21161
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