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Treatment of glioblastoma in Greenlandic patients
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2285077. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2285077. Epub 2023 Nov 22.ABSTRACTGlioblastoma (GBM), WHO grade IV, is the most common primary malignant brain tumour among adults with a devastating overall survival of 14-22 months. Standard treatment of GBM includes maximum safe resection, radiotherapy plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ), given over a period of approximately 9 months. Treatment and follow-up for Greenlandic patients with GBM are managed at Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen. Greenlandic GBM patients, therefore, travel back and forth to RH, often unaccompanied, and cha...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - November 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone Frandsen Alice Juhl Pedersen Ole Gredal S øren Møller Uka Wilhjelm Geissler Dorte Schou N ørøxe Source Type: research

Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis
In this study, we used settler colonial theory, critical Inuit studies, and content analysis to examine if and how sport and Inuit traditional games are identified as prevention tools in these Inuit suicide prevention strategies. The results demonstrate that sport and traditional games have largely been overlooked as protective factors in current Inuit-wide and land-claim specific suicide prevention strategies. Moving forward, evidence-based and community-driven approaches could be funded, created, implemented, and evaluated as culturally-safe Inuit mental health intervention models to address the disproportionately high s...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - November 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hannah Frazer Audrey R Giles Source Type: research

"Balancing two worlds": a constructivist grounded theory exploring distributed/decentralised nursing education in rural and remote areas in Canada and Norway
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2281100. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2281100. Epub 2023 Nov 21.ABSTRACTA challenge confronting northern nursing is delivery of equitable and culturally competent nursing education. Advances in technology support distributed approaches for decentralised learning and enhance the feasibility of nursing education in rural and remote regions. However, there is limited scholarship on distributed/decentralised technologies in nursing education, particularly in northern and circumpolar regions. The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory research was to develop an enhanced understandi...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - November 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jill M G Bally Carol Bullin Jyoti Oswal Bente Norbye Emmy Stav østrand Neuls Source Type: research

Greenlandic norms for the parent-report and self-report versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2279790. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2279790. Epub 2023 Nov 13.ABSTRACTThe Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief screening questionnaire of child behaviour, used to evaluate mental health. It is applicable for children 2-17 years, available to both parents and professionals, and exists in a self-report version available from the age of 11 years. This paper aims to generate Greenlandic norms on the self-report and parent-report versions of the SDQ. In 2023, the self-report version was translated, and a representative sample of children and adolescents completed the...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - November 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Trine Banzon Ask Elklit Source Type: research

The Medicine Wheel: informing the management of tuberculosis outbreaks in Indigenous communities
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2269678. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2269678. Epub 2023 Oct 29.ABSTRACTMany Indigenous communities in Canada experience endemic tuberculosis with superimposed periodic epidemic outbreaks. Failures in outbreak management have resulted in the "seeding" of future infection and disease. In this paper we present a model that may be used in planning, implementation and review of tuberculosis outbreak management in Cree Indigenous communities in Canada, based on the Medicine Wheel, a paradigm for holistic living. In the context of tuberculosis management, the Medicine Wheel provides a path ...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - October 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pamela H Orr Kathleen McMullin Linda Larcombe Source Type: research

Public health restrictions, directives, and measures in Arctic countries in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2271211. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2271211. Epub 2023 Oct 29.ABSTRACTBeginning January of 2020, COVID-19 cases detected in Arctic countries triggered government policy responses to stop transmission and limit caseloads beneath levels that would overwhelm existing healthcare systems. This review details the various restrictions, health mandates, and transmission mitigation strategies imposed by governments in eight Arctic countries (the United States, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and Russia) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, through 31 January 2...
Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health - October 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Malory Peterson Gwen Healey Akearok Katie Cueva Jos ée G Lavoie Christina Vl Larsen L ára Jóhannsdóttir David Cook Lena Maria Nilsson Arja Rautio Ulla Timlin Miguel San Sebasti án Elena Gladun Elizabeth Rink Ann Ragnhild Broderstadt Inger Dagsvold Su Source Type: research