OBJECTIVES The government's Action Plan for Health and Social Services states as a goal that the Sami population's encounter with health and social services should be just as good as what the rest of the population experiences. The goal of this study is to investigate patient satisfaction with the municipal GP service in areas with both a Sami and Norwegian population. STUDY DESIGN A cross-se...

OBJECTIVES Unnatural deaths among Indigenous populations, including the Swedish Sami, occur more often than among the general population. To find prevention strategies, we explored the circumstances of the unnatural deaths of members of reindeer-herding Sami families. STUDY DESIGN The number of deaths from among a cohort of 7,482 members of reindeer-herding Sami families were retrieved from t...

Citation: Lai C-Z, DeGrandpre MD and Darlington RC (2018) Autonomous Optofluidic Chemical Analyzers for Marine Applications: Insights from the Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments (SAMI) for pH and pCO2. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:438. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00438 Autonomous Optofluidic Chemical Analyzers for Marine Applications: Insights from the Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments (SAMI) ...

Mahmoud Tavakoli, Lino Marques and Aníbal T. de Almeida Robotica / Volume 29 / Special Issue 01 / January 2011, pp 23 ­ 34 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574710000676, Published online: 14 January 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0263574710000676 How to cite this article: Mahmoud Tavakoli, Lino Marques and Aníbal T. de Almeida (2011). A low­cost approach for self­calibratio...

BACKGROUND Pain is common in otherwise healthy adolescents. In recent years widespread musculoskeletal pain, in contrast to single site pain, and associating factors has been emphasized. Musculoskeletal pain has not been examined in Arctic indigenous adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of widespread musculoskeletal pain and its association with psychosocial factors,...

BACKGROUND Norwegian government white papers have stated that the Sami population is reluctant to seek help from healthcare services and has traditions of self-help and the use of local networks. OBJECTIVE In this article we explore healthcare professionals' discursive constructions of Sami persons with dementia and their families' reluctance to seek and accept help from healthcare services. ...

This paper focuses on the influence of season of birth on infant mortality among the Sami and non-Sami populations in northern Sweden during the nineteenth century. The source material is a set of data files from the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University, making it possible to combine age at death (in days), month of death, and month of birth over the course of the entire century. Cox regres...

A recent paper by Cesarini et al. (2009) published in lifespan (F1,575 1⁄4 9.79, p 1⁄4 0.002) and gave birth to 0.6 Proceedings B aimed at replicating our previous finding showing that in historical Sami mothers from Northern Scandinavia (mainly from Finland), each son born was associated with a reduction of 0.65 years of a mother’s post-menopausal lifespan (Helle et al. 2002). This finding sup...

Semi-automatic assessment of hyoid bone motion in digital videofluoroscopic images Ishtiaque Hossain, Angela Roberts-South, Mandar Jog & Mahmoud R. ElSakka To cite this article: Ishtiaque Hossain, Angela Roberts-South, Mandar Jog & Mahmoud R. ElSakka (2014) Semi-automatic assessment of hyoid bone motion in digital videofluoroscopic images, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Enginee...