Workshop: Indigenous health and health in remote areas

Date: 2013-03-08
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: NUS 1D - Tandläkarhögskolan
The event is for: students - anyone - employees

Workshop: Indigenous Health and health in remote areas

Organisers: Dr. Per Axelsson and Professor Birgitta Evengård

8.30 Kaffe

9.00 Welcome – Per Axelsson, PhD Centre for Sami Research, Umeå university

9.10 Keynote address: Developing the Australian Indigenous Health Workforce – a work in progress– Associate Professor Shaun Ewen. Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia

9.40 Presentation of The Centre for rural medicine, department of research, County Council of Västerbotten - Anette Edin Liljegren, PhD in medical science.

9.50 Emergency Care in extreme rural areas – Lena Kroik, Master of medical science, The Centre for Rural Medicine, Storuman

10.10 Fika

10.40 Vulnerable populations in the Arctic- Professor Bigitta Evengård, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Umeå university

11.00 Climate change perceptions among Swedish reindeer herders – MD, PhD Student Maria Furberg, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University

11.20 The confidence in health care and social services in northern Sweden – a comparison between reindeer-herding Sami and the non-Sami majority population - Laila Daerga, district nurse, The Centre for Rural Medicine, Storuman.

11.40. Food and Water security in an Arctic Health context - Lena Nilsson, PhD Public Health and Clinical medicine, Umeå university

12.00 Indigenous Health in Transition – Per Axelsson, PhD Centre for Sami
Research.

12.30 Lunch (for presenters)

Funded by Umeå University Young Research Award

Organizer: Vaartoe/Centrum för samisk forskning och Arktiskt centrum vid Umeå universitet
Contact person: Per Axelsson
Event type: Workshop
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