Self-reported hearing impairment among Greenlandic adolescents: Item development and findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study 2018.

Objectives: Ear infections are the leading cause of hearing impairment among children worldwide and a major public health problem in many indigenous populations, yet representative studies of self-reported hearing impairment are currently scarce. The purpose of the present study was therefore two-sided; first to develop an item bank for the collection of data on hearing impairment among Greenlandic adolescents, and second to report data on the child reports on hearing impairment from a national questionnaire-based survey.

Methods: The study describes the process of developing items measuring hearing impairment among schoolchildren, and reports data for their inclusion into a national questionnaire survey.

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.

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.