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date: 23 April 2025

Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russialocked

Regional Studies of Indigenous Health: Europe and Russialocked

  • Peter BjerregaardPeter BjerregaardCentre for Health Research in Greenland and Department of Health, University of Greenland

Summary

The indigenous peoples of Europe and Russia comprise the Inuit in Greenland, the Sami in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia and forty officially recognized ethnic minority groups in northern Russia plus a few larger-population indigenous peoples in Russia. While the health of the Inuit and Sami has been well studied, information about the health of the indigenous peoples of Russia is considerably scarcer. The overall health of the Sami is in many aspects not very different from that of their non-indigenous neighbors in northern Scandinavia; the health of the Inuit is similar across Greenland and North America and far less favorable than that of Denmark, southern Canada and the lower 48 American states, respectively; the health of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north is poor, partly due to poverty and alcohol.

Subjects

  • Global Health
  • Special Populations

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