{"title":"A keynote on family health.","authors":"I Lynge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18644645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health interview survey in Greenland.","authors":"P Bjerregaard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Greenland Health Interview Survey was initiated in 1991 by the Greenlandic health authorities in order to generate a comprehensive and epidemiologically sound basis for health planning and prevention. Trained interviewers have collected information from June 1993 until now but results are not available yet. In a culturally sensitive frame of reference information is gathered on self-perceived health, use of health services, life style and living conditions. The interviewers are indigenous lay persons and the main survey neither includes clinical examinations nor collection of blood specimens. The scope of the survey is broad and several topics are relevant for family health. The main questionnaire covers persons 18 years old and over.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"93-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18644649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Child survival in Greenland.","authors":"P Bjerregaard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The high infant and child mortality in Greenland covers significant differences among geographic regions. In the capital, Nuuk, 14 of 1000 live born children die before their first birthday, in the remote communities of northern and eastern Greenland the figure is 45. An independently higher mortality risk has also been demonstrated in children of mothers with alcohol problems, frequent admissions to hospital, and various other characteristics. A substantial proportion of infant and child deaths are potentially avoidable, either through improved health services or through action at community level. Based on the results of a research project certain concrete actions have been proposed and adopted by the health authorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"11-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18646138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vicissitudes of attachment: nurturance and dependence in Canadian Inuit family relationships, old and new.","authors":"J L Briggs","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes complex and counterbalancing motivations underlying attachment, which governed social life in traditional Inuit camps and continue to influence Inuit behaviour in modern settlements. These motivational patterns are capable of maintaining a strong sense of personal worth and connectedness with other people; but they can malfunction in difficult circumstances. The differing vicissitudes of nurturance and dependence in camps and in settlements are described, with focus on the development of a vicious circle, which can afflict the self-esteem of Inuit who live under modern conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18643978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preventive health programs among Sami adolescents in a Sami community.","authors":"S Kvernmo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The town of Karasjok had during the eighties one of the highest prevalence of suicide among young men with a cluster of deaths in 1987 and 1988. This situation highlighted the life situation of the Sami adolescents in this area and a special suicide prevention program was established. Health and social workers from the primary health care in the town, the psychiatric outpatient clinics, the school, the church among others, worked together in an emergency interventional service for suicidal patients and postventional for the survival relatives and friends. In addition the preventive aspects of health services for the youth were focused. Firmer health services in the primary care in the town were reorganized to recognize and treat children and adolescents with special problems and needs. The school nurses got a central role in the schools available for children and teachers both in treatment, counselling and teaching. A special health service for youth, \"the Youth office,\" was established one evening in the week staffed with a doctor and a nurse. All consultations are free and to make a data is not necessary. Everyone who wants a consultation gets it on the same evening. The Youth office runs evenings with films and discussions on special topics which the youth themselves want to learn more about as contraceptives, AIDS, abortion, friendship, the relationship between a boy and a girl and so on. This offer is very popular, but mostly among girls. The staff also organizes courses for other professionals in cooperation with the youth.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"107-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18646137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prevention of the adverse health effects of cold by using infrared heaters.","authors":"H Anttonen, J Niskanen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the work has been to develop a planning guide for local infrared heating systems and to compare the results to the heaters in the work place. The planning process for radiators is started by defining the goal ambient temperature and then the electric power needed for the radiators. The planning result should always be compared to the recommendations for infrared radiation. The usefulness of the planning instructions were tested by building a local heater for a cooled storage where a computer was used. The increase in operative temperature and the physiological responses of workers were measured as well as the change in the thermal sensations after using heaters. With these heaters the operative temperature increases 7 degrees C. The skin temperature of the fingers increased about 7 degrees C, which is meaningful, when finger dexterity is needed in using computers. Also the thermal sensations increased all over the body. Both the planning instructions developed and the local heating system turned out to be very useful. Also the low costs of local heaters are a good reason for using them. However the exact direction and the narrow bean cone of the heaters are important in obtain the maximum benefit from them.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 2 ","pages":"55-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19865133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heat production during cold water immersion: the role of shivering and exercise in the development of hypothermia.","authors":"T Waag, O Hesselberg, R E Reinertsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immersed in cold water, the body loses heat to the external environment. Heat production rises in order to compensate for heat loss by shivering or exercise. The aim of this study was to determine whether heat production is more successfully maintained over a long period of time by physical activity than by shivering when a human being is wearing an insulated survival suit and is immersed in cold water, and whether increased insulation of those parts of the suit exposed to water improves protection against heat loss with all-around standard insulation of the suit. Nine men participated in four series of experiments each lasting six hours. They were immersed in water at 3.6 degrees C and wore survival suits. One series of trials was made at rest, one series with periods of work, one series at rest where the insulation on the back was increased by 10 mm, and one series at rest with a survival suit featuring a new type of insulation. The results showed that periods of work give better chances of survival than continuous heat production by shivering in a well insulated suit. Furthermore, an extra layer of insulation in the back region significantly improved the thermal status of the subjects. When both rectal and skin temperature change at the same time in the same direction, there is a stronger influence on thermoregulation than when rectal temperature alone changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 2 ","pages":"60-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19865134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Hermanussen, F Jensen, N Hirsch, K Friedel, B Kröger, R Lang, S Just, J Ulmer, M Schaff, P Ahnert
{"title":"Acute and chronic effects of winter swimming on LH, FSH, prolactin, growth hormone, TSH, cortisol, serum glucose and insulin.","authors":"M Hermanussen, F Jensen, N Hirsch, K Friedel, B Kröger, R Lang, S Just, J Ulmer, M Schaff, P Ahnert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present investigation is based on a 2.5 months selbstversuch (self-experiment) of the authors, between October 21 1992, and January 6 1993. 11 healthy students, five females and six males, age 24 to 29 years, and their teachers underwent regular winter swimming at least once a week, for 2 to 10 minutes, at the natural water temperature (6.8 degrees C (October 1992) to 2.0 degrees C (January 1993)) in the southern Baltic Sea. Blood samples were drawn before and 30 and 60 minutes after the cold bath, both at the first and the last day of the swimming season. TSH increased from 0.96 mU/l to 1.42 mU/l (p < 0.01) in the untrained, and from 0.93 mU/l to 1.43 mU/l (p < 0.01) in the cold-trained persons, and decreased thereafter (p < 0.01). Similar changes occurred in cortisol serum concentrations, though psychological stress seemed to interfere with cold stress. Cortisol increased from 99 ng/ml to 133 ng/ml in the untrained, and from 101 ng/ml to 137 ng/ml (p < 0.05) in the cold-trained persons within 30 minutes after cold water immersion, and decreased thereafter (p < 0.01). There were mild decreases in prolactin serum levels after cold stress, whereas FSH, LH and growth hormone remained unaltered. There was a mild initial elevation of serum glucose after cold stress (plus 12 mg/dl, (p < 0.01)) which disappeared after training. There were long term training effects besides the effects on glucose: Basal prolactin levels increased by almost the factor two, and insulin serum levels dropped by almost 50%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 1","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18714044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metabolic changes during cold water immersion.","authors":"O Hesselberg, T Waag, R E Reinertsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was conducted in order to compare the metabolic responses of individuals exposed to long duration cold water immersion under two experimental conditions: 1) Heat loss compensated by shivering thermogenesis, and 2) heat loss compensated by intermittent periods of exercise. Nine subjects participated in two experimental trials 1) Subjects wearing insulated survival suits who did perform mild leg cycling during immersion 2) Subjects wearing insulated survival suits who did not perform exercise. Blood was sampled pre- and postimmersion. Blood was assayed for free fatty acids (FFA), lactate, creatine kinase and glucose. Intermittent periods of physical activity during cold water immersion resulted in a higher increase in FFA than during inactivity. In lactate, glucose, and creatine kinase there were no significant differences between the changes from pre- to postimmersion under the two conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 2 ","pages":"65-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19866328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal abortion in Greenland. Report from a workshop.","authors":"P Bjerregaard, F Senderovitz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77012,"journal":{"name":"Arctic medical research","volume":"54 Suppl 1 ","pages":"122-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18643976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}