Circumpolar Health-Related Problems

Authors

  • C. Earl Albrecht

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3240

Keywords:

Allergies, Anthropology, Diseases, Food, Health, Health care, Human physiology, Native peoples, Psychology, Viruses, Arctic regions

Abstract

Reports on the 1967 Symposium on Circumpolar Health-Related Problems, Univ of Alaska, 23-28 July, sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America under a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Speakers from Canada and the USA were joined by representatives from Denmark, Greenland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the USSR. The papers presented related to pulmonary and virus diseases, zoonoses, environmental stresses on human behavior, physiology, anthropology, nutrition and hazardous contamination of the environment.

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Published

1968-01-01

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (1968): March

Section

Commentary