Review Article: Child health in Greenland

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-322

  Niclasen, Birgit V l ^a   Bjerregaard, Peter ^b  

^a District Medical Clinic   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescents; children; disease pattern; Greenland; inequity; Inuit; social ill health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DENMARK; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; GREENLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; DIPHTHERIA; DISABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY RELATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INJURY; MEASLES; MEDLINE; MUMPS; OBESITY; OTITIS MEDIA; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RUBELLA; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; GREENLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INUITS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BCG VACCINE;

EID: 34447107813     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034940600975781     Document Type: Review

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