International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1998; vol 57:4


OBITUARY


Preface
George Conwoy

]ens Peder Hart Hansen, 3 November 1936 23 September 1998
Bent Harvald and Leif Vanggaard


EDITORIAL
Editorial
Inge Lynge


ORIGINAL RESEARCH


Variability of substance abuse. Global variability of substance abuse: Is latitude a unique etiological factor
David Paschane

Persistant organic pollutants in maternal blood plasma and breast milk from Russian Arctic populations

Valeri Klopov, Jon Øyvind Odland and Ivan G. Burkow

Building related health problems: Reflections on different symptom prevalence among pupils and teachers
Åke Thörn

Place of the Hokkaido Ainu (Northern japan) among circumpolar and other peoples of the world

T. Hanihara, H. Ishida and Y. Dodo

The course of childhood bronchiectasis: A CASE REPORT. A case report and consideration of hospital use
Olli Säynäjäkangas, Timo Keistinen, Tuili Tuuponen and Sirkka Liisa Kivelä


REVIEW


The Human Health Programme under AMAP
Jens G. Hansen


PROJECT MEETING REPORT


Project meeting report: International Workshop on Inuit Autopsy & Related Studies, October 2 3, 1997, Quebec, Canada
Donald A. Boudreau, Gert Mulvad, Jens G. Hansen and William P Newman


BOOK REVIEW


"The Circumpolar Inuit health of a population in transition" by Peter Bjerregaard and T. Kue Young

Bent Harvald


SOCIETY NEWS

Environmental health research in Northern Quebec
Education and research on nutrition issues in Canada
SCAR Working Group on Human Biology & Medicine


GENERAL INFORMATION


Annual report of the Institute of Arctic Medicine

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
Eleventh International Congress on Circumpolar Health "The Millenium Congress"


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