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International Polar Year 2007–2008 - WMO

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342<br />

IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

Fig. 2.11-3. The<br />

<strong>International</strong><br />

Circumpolar<br />

Surveillance (ICS)<br />

network of public<br />

health laboratories<br />

and institutes linked<br />

together for the<br />

purpose of sharing<br />

standardized<br />

information on<br />

infectious diseases<br />

of concern to Arctic<br />

peoples<br />

(Source: Arctic<br />

Investigations Program).<br />

2008, interviewing among the Sámi in Norway and the<br />

Kola Peninsula was concluded. The data material consists<br />

of approximately 8000 personal interviews.<br />

During IPY, SLiCA intended to expand the<br />

understanding of Arctic change by extending the<br />

concepts of remote access analysis to the SLiCA<br />

international database (Hamilton et al., 2009),<br />

allowing other researchers to remotely conduct<br />

analysis without access to raw data. All interview data<br />

(except the Canadian SLiCA data) have been included<br />

in a SPSS database and almost 600 tables including<br />

survey results based on the interviewing among the<br />

Inuit (www.arcticlivingconditions.org).<br />

During IPY, the concept of a Circumpolar Health<br />

Observatory (CircHOB) was developed (www.circhob.<br />

circumpolarhealth.org). Circumpolar regions have<br />

much in common beyond climate and geography.<br />

While health priorities are generally similar, health and<br />

social policies, service delivery systems, available resources<br />

and population characteristics vary considerably<br />

across regions. As a consequence, substantial disparities<br />

in health outcomes exist among circumpolar<br />

countries and regions. Monitoring, documenting and<br />

disseminating statistical health data will contribute to<br />

improvements in the design of policies, planning of<br />

services and evaluation of programs by government<br />

agencies, non-governmental organizations, academic<br />

institutions and communities across the circumpolar<br />

world. The objective of the CircHOB is an international<br />

collaborative health information system, involved in<br />

systematic, standardized and consistent data collection<br />

and analysis. It is population-based and covers<br />

all northern regions in all circumpolar countries. CircHOB’s<br />

purpose is to monitor trends and patterns in<br />

health status, health determinants and health care,<br />

and provide an on-going knowledge base and analytical<br />

support for decision-makers, service providers,<br />

academic researchers and consumers.<br />

Several other human health and social indicator<br />

networks are operational and will increase our<br />

research capacity and to address social realities of the<br />

Arctic. They all aim to encourage data sharing and use.<br />

The Arctic Social Indicators (ASI - Chapter 2.10) is a<br />

follow-up project to the Arctic Human Development<br />

Report (Young and Einarsson, 2004). This project, which<br />

is currently on-going, will take advantage of existing<br />

data to create relevant indicators and will recommend<br />

a set of new and relevant indicators (Chapter 2.10). ASI

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