Circumpolar health collaborations: a description of players and a call for further dialogue

Chatwood, Susan; Parkinson, Alan; Johnson, Rhonda

doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i5.17850

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“…At the core of a One Health approach are those stakeholders in close proximity to the natural environment and include local communities and indigenous peoples. Third, there are on-going programs, systems and networks working in close collaboration that include local and regional government, multidisciplinary science communities, research institutes, academia, non-governmental agencies, the private sector, civil societies, native organizations and other stakeholders ( 21 , 22 ). One example of a transdisciplinary organization is the Alaska One Health Group.…”

Section: One Health Concept In the Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is also important to highlight the efforts that have enhanced international partnerships for sharing best practices in disease surveillance and prevention strategies on health risks across the circumpolar countries ( 22 ). International collaborations on policies, programmes and initiatives in the Arctic have supported the integration of stakeholders and disciplines since human health became a specific focus for research in 1957 with the establishment of the Nordic Council committee for Arctic Medical Research ( 25 , 26 ) (see Table I ).…”

Section: One Health Concept In the Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

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One Health – a strategy for resilience in a changing arctic

Ruscio

Brubaker

Glasser

et al. 2015

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The circumpolar north is uniquely vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change. While international Arctic collaboration on health has enhanced partnerships and advanced the health of inhabitants, significant challenges lie ahead. One Health is an approach that considers the connections between the environment, plant, animal and human health. Understanding this is increasingly critical in assessing the impact of global climate change on the health of Arctic inhabitants. The effects of climate change are complex and difficult to predict with certainty. Health risks include changes in the distribution of infectious disease, expansion of zoonotic diseases and vectors, changing migration patterns, impacts on food security and changes in water availability and quality, among others. A regional network of diverse stakeholder and transdisciplinary specialists from circumpolar nations and Indigenous groups can advance the understanding of complex climate-driven health risks and provide community-based strategies for early identification, prevention and adaption of health risks in human, animals and environment. We propose a regional One Health approach for assessing interactions at the Arctic human–animal–environment interface to enhance the understanding of, and response to, the complexities of climate change on the health of the Arctic inhabitants.

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Section: One Health Concept In the Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: One Health Concept In the Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

One Health – a strategy for resilience in a changing arctic

Ruscio

Brubaker

Glasser

et al. 2015

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…This geopolitical space is part of the broader aspects of the global health context [ 7 ]. Shared health challenges have been raised through various circumpolar forums for decades [ 8 , 9 ]. In these forums, there has been a significant focus on health disparities of indigenous peoples and the impacts of an intertwined range of health determinants such as food security, climate change and, in recent years, health systems [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Values and Health Systems Stewardship in Circumpolar Countries

Chatwood

Paulette

Baker

et al. 2017

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Circumpolar regions, and the nations within which they reside, have recently gained international attention because of shared and pressing public policy issues such as climate change, resource development, endangered wildlife and sovereignty disputes. In a call for national and circumpolar action on shared areas of concern, the Arctic states health ministers recently met and signed a declaration that identified shared priorities for international cooperation. Among the areas for collaboration raised, the declaration highlighted the importance of enhancing intercultural understanding, promoting culturally appropriate health care delivery and strengthening circumpolar collaboration in culturally appropriate health care delivery. This paper responds to the opportunity for further study to fully understand indigenous values and contexts, and presents these as they may apply to a framework that will support international comparisons and systems improvements within circumpolar regions. We explored the value base of indigenous peoples and provide considerations on how these values might interface with national values, health systems values and value bases between indigenous nations particularly in the context of health system policy-making that is inevitably shared between indigenous communities and jurisdictional or federal governments. Through a mixed methods nominal consensus process, nine values were identified and described: humanity, cultural responsiveness, teaching, nourishment, community voice, kinship, respect, holism and empowerment.

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“…Furthermore, circumpolar natives vary, from constituting a small minority of the total regional population (e.g., <1% in Scandinavia) to a near complete majority (e.g., ∼90% in Greenland), and the Inuit and several other native northern groups have territories that extend across multiple nations (Young & Bjerregaard 2008b, Young 2012. One prominent circumpolar researcher encapsulated this extreme heterogeneity by comparing the lifeways and health of an Inuit hunter, a Russian mine worker, and a Norwegian schoolteacher (see Chatwood et al 2011). Thus, summarizing the health of circumpolar populations is an immense challenge, and consequently, no review can be truly comprehensive and without critical omissions.…”

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Health of Indigenous Circumpolar Populations

Snodgrass

2013

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Indigenous circumpolar populations have experienced profound transitions in lifeways over the past half-century as a result of economic development. Although there have been positive aspects of this social transformation, most circumpolar groups today have a triple burden of disease, with a modestly elevated infectious disease level, an elevated and increasing burden of chronic conditions such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, and high rates of mental health-related challenges. The health of contemporary circumpolar populations is not easily characterized because of dramatic regional differences that stem from socioeconomic disparities among nonindigenous groups, individual population histories, lifestyle factors, environmental pollution, and underlying biological variation. Overall health and well-being range from excellent among the Sami of Sweden and Norway to extremely poor among marginalized native populations in northern Russia. Circumpolar groups today are not only threatened by continued regional economic development and pollution, but also uniquely vulnerable to global climate change.

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Circumpolar health collaborations: a description of players and a call for further dialogue

Cited by 6 publications

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One Health – a strategy for resilience in a changing arctic

One Health – a strategy for resilience in a changing arctic

Indigenous Values and Health Systems Stewardship in Circumpolar Countries

Health of Indigenous Circumpolar Populations

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