Three lifestyle-related issues of major significance for public health among the Inuit in contemporary Greenland: a review of adverse childhood conditions, obesity, and smoking in a period of social transition

Greenland is a country in transition from a colonial past with subsistence hunting and fishing to an urban Nordic welfare state. Epidemiological transition from infectious to chronic diseases has been evident since the 1950s. Ninety percent of the population is Inuit.

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Published in:Public Health Reviews
Main Authors: Bjerregaard, Peter, Larsen, Christina V. L.
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901873/
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-018-0085-8
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5901873 2023-05-15T16:25:29+02:00 Three lifestyle-related issues of major significance for public health among the Inuit in contemporary Greenland: a review of adverse childhood conditions, obesity, and smoking in a period of social transition Bjerregaard, Peter Larsen, Christina V. L. 2018-04-16 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901873/ https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-018-0085-8 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901873/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-018-0085-8 © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. CC0 PDM CC-BY Review Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-018-0085-8 2018-04-29T00:10:56Z Greenland is a country in transition from a colonial past with subsistence hunting and fishing to an urban Nordic welfare state. Epidemiological transition from infectious to chronic diseases has been evident since the 1950s. Ninety percent of the population is Inuit. Text Greenland inuit PubMed Central (PMC) Greenland Public Health Reviews 39 1
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