Urfolkshälsa : utmanande och svårfångad

• Main Author: Axelsson, Per
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Umeå universitet, Centrum för samisk forskning (CeSam) 2015
• Subjects: Public Health; Global Health; Social Medicine and Epidemiology; Folkhälsovetenskap; global hälsa; socialmedicin och epidemiologi; History of Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap; Kring; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-115767

This article examines Swedish health research regarding the Indigenous Sami people and the lack of epidemiological data. A historical overview underlines that Swedish research is hampered by Sami people having been the subject of studies by the National Institute of Racial Biology between 1920 and 1...