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Proposals

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Behavioral Health
Changing Environment & Human Health
Climate Change
Education Outreach & Communication
Expansion of Networks
Health Surveys
Infectious Disease
Injuries

New updates below! - 9/14/10

Behavioral Health

• Healthy Lifestyles Project
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Mental and Behavioral Health Issues in the U.S. Arctic
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Negotiating Pathways to Adulthood: Social Change and Indigenous Culture in Four Circumpolar Communities
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Changing Environment & Human Health

• A circumpolar study of new contaminants in women of reproductive age; an assessment in human blood, dietary sources and possible associations to pregnancy outcome
  Abstract   [Inactive]

• Arctic Community-Based Environmental Monitoring, Observation and Information Stations Phase I: Bering Sea Sub-Network
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Arctic Resiliency and Diversity: Community Response to Change
  Abstract Inactive

• Center for Alaska Native Health Research
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Change in Diet and Lifestyle and Rise in Chronic Diseases of Alaska Native People- the EARTH Study- Education and Research Towards Health
  Abstract Inactive

• Does Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer? Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Engaging communities in the monitoring of zoonoses, country food safety and wildlife health
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• The Inuit Diet and Health Study: A study of the impact of diet on health and disease among the Inuit and Yupik of the circumpolar North
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Inuit Health in Transition: A study of the impact of changing environments society and climate on health and disease among the Inuit and Yupik of the circumpolar North
  Abstract

• Novel Approaches for Assessing and Managing Cumulative Risks and Impacts of Global Climate
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)
  

• Public health in Russian Arctic: Analytical review for Russian Program of International Polar Year 2007-2008
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Research & Action Plan for Human Health Risk Reduction in the Arctic (Human Health Risk Reduction in the Arctic)
  Abstract

• The Siberian Birth Outcomes Study (SIBOS)
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Climate Change

• Climate Change and Impacts on Human Health in the Arctic: An International Workshop on Emerging Threats and Response of Arctic Communities to Climate Change
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Education Outreach & Communication

• The Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing (CHW): Research programme for Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing (RCHW), Graduate School of Circumpolar Wellbeing, Health and Adaptation (GCHW), and International Joint Master’s Program in Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing (MCHW) 
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Development of a Women’s Health and Well-Being Track at the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife, NWT July 2009
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Pressures and Impacts on the Health and Well-being of Indigenous People of the Arctic: Invitational International Symposium and Symposium Publication
  Abstract Inactive

• Scientific and professional supplements on human health in polar regions-the International Journal of Circumpolar Health
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Telemedicine Cooperation Project
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Workshop / Conference summarizing the results of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program's Human Health Assessment Group (AMAP HHAG Research Program (2002 – 2008)
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Expansion of Networks

• Arctic Health Research Network
  Abstract

• Genetics and Environmental Risk Factors for Complex Diseases: The Northern Sweden Population Health Study (NSPHS)
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• International Network for Circumpolar Health Research
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• International Circumpolar Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Sustaining Arctic Observing Network for Health
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Health Surveys

• Health status of adopted children in Greenland - a controlled comparative register- and population based field study
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)
  Published paper

• Integration and health - a comparative study of how socio-demographic changes have influenced the health condition of the Sami and the Inuit since the 18th century
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA - Remote Access Analysis System
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Infectious Disease

• The burden of infectious diseases in Greenland – means of evaluation and reduction
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Evaluation of the impact of an immunisation program combining pneumococcal conjugated vaccine and inactivated influenza vaccine in Nunavik children, Province of Quebec, Canada
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Haplotype diversity in candidate genes for susceptibility/resistance to infectious disease among circumpolar Aboriginal populations
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Hepatitis B in Aboriginal Populations in the Arctic: Alaska Natives, Canadian Inuit and First Nations Peoples, Greenland Inuits and Russian Native Populations
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus Infection and Cervical Dysplasia in the North West Territories
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

• Sexual health and sexually transmitted infections in northern frontier populations
  Abstract - Progress update (pdf)

Injuries

None at this time

 

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