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Towards estimating the indigenous population in circumpolar regions
- Source :
- International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Young, T K & Bjerregaard, P 2019, ' Towards estimating the indigenous population in circumpolar regions ', International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 1653749 . https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1653749, International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 78, Iss 1 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis, 2019.
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Abstract
- Despite the importance of indigenous people in the Arctic, there is no accurate estimate of their size and distribution. We defined indigenous people as those groups represented by the “permanent participants” of the Arctic Council. The census in Canada, Russia and the United States records status as an indigenous person. In Greenland, a proxy measure is place of birth supplemented by other information. For the Nordic countries we utilized a variety of sources including registered voters’ lists of the various Sami parliaments and research studies that established Sami cohorts. Overall, we estimated that there were about 1.13 million indigenous people in the northern regions of the 8 Member States of the Arctic Council. There were 8,100 Aleuts in Alaska and the Russian North; 32,400 Athabaskans in Alaska and northern Canada; 145,900 Inuit in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland; 76,300 Sami in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia; and 866,400 people in northern Russia belonging to other indigenous groups. Different degrees and types of methodological problems are associated with estimates from different regions. Our study highlights the complexity and difficulty of the task and the considerable gaps in knowledge. We hope to spur discussion of this important issue which could ultimately affect strategies to improve the health of circumpolar peoples.
- Subjects :
- Canada
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Health (social science)
lcsh:RC955-962
Epidemiology
census
Population
Greenland
indigenous people
Distribution (economics)
population
Antarctic Regions
registry
Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
Epidemiologic Measurements
Indigenous
Proxy (climate)
Circumpolar health
Russia
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Population Groups
Theory and Methods article
arctic
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Socioeconomics
education.field_of_study
030505 public health
business.industry
Arctic Regions
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Censuses
General Medicine
Circumpolar star
Census
Place of birth
Geography
Arctic
0305 other medical science
business
Alaska
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22423982 and 12399736
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Circumpolar Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d804a360af73aea76d70349e6789c35b