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J Misfeldt

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PubMed1993

Changes in knowledge of HIV/AIDS, sexual behaviour and practice among STD patients in Greenland 1990-1992. Monitoring the Stop-AIDS campaign in Greenland.

Due to a high incidence of STDs Greenland is considered to be a high risk area for an AIDS epidemic, and a close monitoring system has been set up to monitor the spread of HIV and changes in knowledge and sexual norms. This is the second report from surveys of knowledge, sexual behaviour and practice and STD patients i Greenland. Data were collected by means of self administered questionnaires in 1990 to 1992 in Nuuk, Sisimiut and Angmagssalik. The results from Nuuk in 1992 are compared with results from a similar survey from 1990.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

An update on knowledge and sexual behaviour among students in Greenland. Monitoring of the stop-AIDS campaign.

Greenland is a considered high risk area for a self-sustained heterosexual HIV-epidemic due to rather relaxed sexual norms in larger segments of the population and a high incidence of sexual transmitted diseases. However, the prevalence of HIV-positives is still low. As part of a monitoring programme longitudinal studies of young peoples' knowledge and sexual behaviour has been established. This paper presents results from the second survey among all students in vocational training and all 10th grade students in the public schools. Previous studies were performed in 1988 and 1989. The present study which took place in April 1991 involved a total of 1201 students, or about 85% of all students in the target groups (95% among students present on the day of surveying). Data collection was based upon standardized self-administered questionnaires. The study showed better knowledge than previously but no marked change in sexual habits. The age of sexual début even appeared to be decreasing. More than half reported a sexual début before the age of 15. More than 20% reported 10 sexual partners or more within the last year. HIV has still not reached the young population in Greenland but when it happens the present sexual behaviour carries a high risk of a self-sustained epidemic.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Infant mortality in Greenland: secular trend and regional variation.

Infant mortality and stillbirths were studied in the Inuit population of Greenland. Infant mortality rate decreased from 110 per 1000 live births in 1951 to 50 in 1970 and 20 in 1989. Statistically significant decrease was in particular seen for acute respiratory infections and certain perinatal conditions. Both perinatal and postperinatal mortality rates increased significantly with remoteness from the capital and were higher in settlements than in towns. The overall trend in Greenland is similar to the Danish pattern 30 years earlier, but there was pronounced regional variation. In towns, the infant mortality rate decreased continuously while in settlements an initial decrease was followed by a substantial increase during 1980-87 when the mortality rate doubled. The greater part of this increase could be attributed to an increased number of deaths in the postperinatal period countrywide during 1981-84 and an increased number of perinatal deaths in the settlements of one particular municipality during 1983-86.

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PubMed1989

On suicide statistics.

The classical methodological problem of suicidology is reliability of official statistics. In this article, some recent contributions to the debate, particularly concerning the increased problem of suicide among Inuit, are reviewed. Secondly the suicide statistics of Greenland are analyzed, with the conclusion that the official statistics, as published by the Danish Board of Health, are generally reliable concerning Greenland.

Death Certificates↗
PubMed1989

[Greenland's health care system seen from the front seat].

The Greenlandic health service differs in several ways from that of Denmark--primarily by reason of the country's geography and its small, widely scattered towns. In recent years it has proved very difficult to recruit a sufficiency of doctors and the situation has at times been critical in this respect. The article reviews the organization of the Greenlandic health and medical services together with the pattern of diseases, and analyses some of the elements of the crisis.

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