International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study found that international research on climate sensitive infectious disease and zoonotic infections is impeded by incompatible reporting systems and differences in regulation; advises international standardization.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2016, p. 22=36
Description
Uses a map from AD1671 of the Swedish forest-Sami district to compare different forest Sami groups. Concludes that settlements are all close to rivers and lakes showing they fish as opposed to hunt.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 2, no. 2, Global Solidarity Symposium, 2016
Description
Presentation by the Director of the Centre for Sami Research, University of Umea, Sweden at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 2016.
Duration: 54:42.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
A scoping literature review selected 43 articles published between 2005 and 2016; findings address 4 main themes relating to compromised access to healthcare: (1) the influence of physical geography, (2) healthcare provider-related barriers, (3) the importance of culture and language and (4) the impact of systemic factors.
Discusses issues relating to ownership, representation, and control of open data, the individual and collective right to access and privacy, and current approaches to ownership, licensing and use.Chapterr 21 in The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker,
Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini.
Reports on challenges and proposals emerging from workshop groups at the first Nordic Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Dementia. The challenges identified in terms of provision of services in municipalities were: insufficient knowledge of rights and what they entail, lack of linguistic and cultural expertise, lack of tools for day-to-day work and development of operations, and developing collaborations between Nordic countries.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, Climate, Spring, 2016, pp. 36-40
Description
Interview with Sámi artist about climate activism, the struggle for self-determination and being the first runner in the Run For Your Life Project, a massive relay from the Arctic to Paris.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.
Northern Review, no. 43, Nursing Education in the Circumpolar North, 2016, pp. 1-10
Description
"This compendium includes ten reports outlining baccalaureate level nursing programs, delivered in all corners of the Circumpolar North, that have unique but often analogous challenges and contexts".
Positive Self-Reported Health might be an Important Determinant of Students’s Experiences of High School in Northern Sweden
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hanna Forsberg
Heidi Carlerby
Annika Norstrand
Anitha Risberg
Catrine Kostenius
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study used data from the health dialogue questionnaire which surveyed 5035 students between 2013 and 2016; results were analyzed to determine associations between positive self-reported health and student experience. It was found that positive health is associated with positive experiences of school.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study uses digitised parish records from the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University to compare how the season of birth affected the neonatal and stillbirth risk among the Sami and non-Sami in Swedish Sápmi during the nineteenth century.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
First systematic review of somatic health among Indigenous Sami; results indicate that the incidence of many diseases are similar to those for non-Sami peoples, and that there is a need for longitudinal studies.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 4, Indigenous Notions of Cultural Heritage, December 2019, pp. 349-358
Description
Article uses the traditional Sámi practice of reindeer husbandry to examine the ways that digital tracking technologies can be used to provide irrefutable evidence of land use, and to assert Indigenous claims to sovereignty.