World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 253: Conference on Medicine and Public Health in the Arctic and Antarctic

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 253: Conference on Medicine and Public Health in the Arctic and Antarctic
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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CONFERENCE ON MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE ARCT1,C AND ANTARCTIC Report The WHO Conference on Medicine and Public Health in the Arctic and Antarctic met in Geneva from 28 August - l September 1962. This Conference, the first of its kind to be sponsored by the Organization, was opened by Dr P. M. Dorolle, Deputy Director-General, on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Dorolle pointed out that the Conference was exploratory in nature ; it was intended largely to be a forum for the exchange of experiences on health problems in the high latitudes, and for the pooling and analysis of progress so far made in coping with health problems in cold climates. From these exchanges it was hoped that there might emerge some clear indications on which to base a worthwhile programme of activities in this field. Such a programme might perhaps be carried out on a co-operative basis.

Table of Contents
contetns General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Epidemiology and special disease problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The organization of health services in the Arctic . . . . . . . . . . 11 Problems of transportation. supplies and equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Types of medical institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Organization of mental health services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Environmental health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Water supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Waste disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Insects of public health importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mental health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Indirect stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Indigenous populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Civil servants. settlers. seasonal workers. etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Station personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Physiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Research needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Cultural studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Mental health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Physiology and nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Environmental health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Epidemiology and special disease problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Organization of health services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Annex : List of participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28