Association between negative life events and morbidity in homeless seeking treatment for substance abuse in Greenland.

Introduction: The aim of the investigation was to describe the association between negative life events on morbidity in homeless seeking treatment for substance abuse in Greenland.

Methods: Cross sectional study on register data comparing homeless and individuals in secure housing initiating alcohol or substance abuse treatment in Greenland between 1 January 2017 and 14 December 2019, ( = 950). Results: Homeless were socio-economically disadvantaged compared to treatment seekers in secure housing.

Polysubstance abuse among sexually abused in alcohol, drug, and gambling addiction treatment in Greenland: a cross sectional study.

This study aims to investigate the association between earlier sexual abuse and polysubstance abuse among persons in alcohol, drug and gambling addiction treatment in Greenland. The study included 431 individuals treated in 2017-2019. Data on exposure (sexual abuse), outcome (polysubstance abuse), and potential confounders (age, sex, school education, further education, labour market affiliation, physical abuse and emotional abuse) were extracted from The National Database on Substance Abuse Treatment.

The effect of structural and functional social relations on smoking among adolescents - data from HBSC Greenland 2018.

The prevalence of adolescent smoking in Greenland is relatively high and remains an important topic to study. The present study reports the prevalence of smoking among Greenlandic adolescents in 2018 and the association between smoking and social relations. The study was based on HBSC Greenland 2018, using a theoretical framework proposed by Due and colleagues, which divides social relations into nd relations.

Prevalence of problems with alcohol, marijuana and gambling among patients in a Regional Hospital in Northern Greenland: investigating the potential for brief interventions in a hospital setting.

Problems with alcohol, marijuana and gambling are major public health challenges in Greenland but their prevalence in a hospital setting has not been explored. Healthcare facilities play a significant role in Greenland. One important aspect is their provision of both primary and secondary healthcare services to a small and scattered population while their potential as settings for screening for problems with alcohol, substances and gambling is an unexplored area with large public health potential.

Does establishing local treatment institutions lead to different populations seeking treatment among Greenlandic Inuit?

In 2016, a new addiction treatment service was established in Greenland to tackle the addiction problems with alcohol, cannabis and gambling among the population. The new service has established a treatment center in each of the five municipalities and works in partnership with a central private provider of treatment for those who reside in areas without a local treatment center. The national addiction database provided us with data from the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, Alcohol Severity Index and questions on cannabis use and gambling behavior received at referral to, and at initiation of treatment.

Societal costs and effects of implementing population-based mammography screening in Greenland.

With a low breast cancer incidence and low population density, Greenland is geographically and organisationally challenged in implementing a cost effective breast cancer screening programme where a large proportion of the Greenlandic women will have to travel far to attend. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the cost effectiveness and cost utility of different strategies for implementing population-based breast cancer screening in Greenland. Two strategies were evaluated: Centralised screening in the capital Nuuk and decentralised screening in the five municipal regions of Greenland.

Growth measures among preschool-age Inuit children living in Canada and Greenland.

Aim: The present study reports findings from a study of preschool-age Inuit children living in the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland.

Methods: We compare stature and obesity measures using cutoffs from the Centers for Disease Control and the International Obesity Task Force references. The sample is comprised of 1121 Inuit children (554 boys and 567 girls) aged 3-5 years living in Nunavut (n=376) and Nunavik (n=87), Canada, in the capital city of Nuuk, Greenland (n=86), and in Greenland's remaining towns and villages (n=572).

Breakfast consumption and its socio-demographic and lifestyle correlates in schoolchildren in 41 countries participating in the HBSC study.

Objective: To investigate associations of daily breakfast consumption (DBC) with demographic and lifestyle factors in 41 countries.

Design: Survey including nationally representative samples of 11-15 year olds (n = 204,534) (HBSC 2005-2006).

Statistics: Multilevel logistic regression analyses.

Onset of overweight in Nuuk, Greenland: a retrospective cohort study of children from 1973 to 1992.

The purpose of the study was to examine the age at onset of overweight and obesity of 2-15-year-old children in Nuuk, Greenland, born between 1973 and 1992. The study was a retrospective cohort study. The data were retrieved from the children's individual health files containing information on height and weight, and the database contained a total of 12,002 measurements of BMI in 3,094 children (1,522 boys and 1,572 girls).

Child health in Greenland.

Aim: To review the knowledge on child health and child health problems in Greenland.

Method: The review was based on theses, national statistics, national and international reports, and a search in Pub Med, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and WHOLIB databases from 1985 to 2005. The resulting articles were sorted by topic, type, quality of study, and relevance for child health today, providing 47 articles.

Bullying among Greenlandic schoolchildren: development since 1994 and relations to health and health behaviour.

Objectives: The objective was to examine the development in the prevalence of bullying behaviours among Greenlandic schoolchildren and the association with health outcome and health behaviour.

Study Design: The study was based on three school surveys among Greenlandic schoolchildren contributing to the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, a WHO collaborative study. The surveys were carried out in Greenland in 1994, 1998 and 2002, with respective participations of 1322, 1648 and 891 pupils of 11, 13 and 15 years of age.

Overweight and obesity at school entry as predictor of overweight in adolescence in an Arctic child population.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyse the changes in the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and in mean body mass index (BMI) among school children, and to analyse the predictive value of overweight and obesity at school entry to overweight and obesity in adolescence in an Arctic child population.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study. A database was created on the basis of files from health examinations.

Changes in drug prescription over a decade in an Arctic child population.

Aim: To describe the changes in drug prescription to 0-14-y-old outpatient children from 1991 to 2001.

Methods: ATC codes on prescriptions were compared.

Main Results: Prescriptions rose from 2.

Changes since 1980 in body mass index and the prevalence of overweight among inschooling children in Nuuk, Greenland.

Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the trends which have occurred during the past generation in body mass index (BMI) and in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children in public schools in Nuuk, Greenland.

Study Design: The study is a retrospective cohort study of BMI among inschooling children (age 6 or 7 years old). A database was created on the basis of files from school-nurses containing information on height and weight among children having attended school in Nuuk since 1970.