Int J Circumpolar Health 2003; 62(3): 221-312


EDITORIAL

After an Arctic heatwave
Juhani Hassi, Editor-in-chief
[abstract]


REVIEW

Association of melatonin secretion with seasonal luminosity in human subjects
Juhani Leppäluoto
[full text]

Diet and mental health in the Arctic: Is diet an important risk factor for mental health in circumpolar peoples? – a review
Nancy K. McGrath-Hanna, Dana M. Greene, Ronald J. Tavernier, Abel Bult-Ito
[abstract] [full text]


ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Alterations in serum melatonin and sleep in individuals in a sub-arctic region during the rapid dark-light shift from winter to spring
Trond Bratlid, Björn Wahlund
[abstract] [full text]

Effect of the Antarctic environment on hormone levels and mood of Chinese expeditioners
Xu Chengli, Zhu Guangjin, Xue Quanfu, Zhang Shandong, Du Guoyuan, Xi Yanzhen, Lawrence A. Palinkas
[abstract] [full text]

Determinism, Risk and Safe Driving Behavior in Northern Alberta, Canada
J. Peter Rothe, Laureen Elgert
[abstract] [full text]

Hair chromium concentration of northern Finns
L. Soininen, H. Mussalo-Rauhamaa, J. Lehto
[abstract] [full text]

Growth in Greenland: Development of body proportions and menarcheal age in Greenlandic children.
Finn Gottfried Becker-Christensen
[abstract] [full text]

Life span of people who died from cardiovascular diseases in Siberia: a comparative study of two populations
Vladimir N. Melnikov
[abstract] [full text]


CIRCUMPORAL DISSERTATIONS

Maternal postnatal depression: causes and consequences
Pauliina Hiltunen
[abstract]


CORRECTION
[Correction]


SCIENTIFIC COMMENT

Seasonal affective disorder in the pole and conditions of life as confounding factor
Pierre Schulz


INDIGENOUS HEALTH

Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project
Earl Nowgesic


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