AMAP Greenland and the Faroe Islands 1997-2001

Preface

The present report, is one of five National Reports on AMAP activities in Greenland and The Faroe Islands during phase 2, 1997-2002, published by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The scope of the report is to provide the fully referenced, comprehensive, technical and scientifically presented assessment of available and validated data on the Human Health status in Greenland and the Faroe Islands relative to the AMAP phase 2 mandate. This report provides a more comprehensive and detailed presentation of data from the two areas than what was possible to include in the international report. The report is specifically addressed to scientists in Public Health, Environmental Medicine, and others with interest in the Arctic Environment.

Editors:

Bente Deutch, Associate professor, Ph.D. MPH, Centre of Arctic Environmental Medicine, CAM, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, +45 8942 6172 Jens C. Hansen, Associate Professor, Dr.med. Centre of Arctic Environmental Medicine, CAM, Vennelyst ,Boulevard 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. +45 8942 6160

The following authors have contributed to the report:

Chapter 1:	Editors
Chapter 2:	Peter Bjerregaard, Professor, Dr.med., The National Institute of Public Health, Svanemøllevej 25, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Chapter 3:	Poul Johansen, Ph.D., Gert Asmund, Ph.D., Rune Dietz, Ph.D. Department of Arctic Environment, the National Institute of Environmental Research, P.O. Box 358, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Derek Muir, Ph.D., Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, MNR3T 2NG Burlington, Canada.
Chapter 4:	Bente Deutch, Associate professor, Ph.D. MPH, Centre of Arctic Environmental Medicine, CAM, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Chapter 5:	The chapter is in partly from Árni Olafsson: “The Faroe Islands, A brief introduction”, published by the Faroese Government Office, Copenhagen, 1999, and supplemented by Pál Weihe, MD, Depart. of Occupational and Public Health, The Faroese Hospital System, Sigmundargøta 5, P.O. Box 14, 110 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. The part on Contaminants in Faroese subsistence food is by Maria Dam, Dr. Scient, Food and Environmental Agency, Falkavegur 6, Fo-100 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Chapter 6:	Pál Weihe, MD, Ulrike Steuerwald, MD, PhD, MPH, Sepideh Taheri, MD, Odmar Færø, MD, Anna Sofía Veyhe, midwife, Did Nicolajsen, dietician, Depart. of Occupational and Public Health, The Faroese Hospital System, Sigmundargöta 5, P.O. Box 14, 110 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Chapter 7:	Eva Bonefeld Jørgensen, Associate Professor Ph.D. Unit of Environmental Biotechnology UEB), Dept. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Chapter 8:	Editors

The Project has been followed by an advisory group with the following members:

Peter Bjerregaard

National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen

Arne Büchert

Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Copenhagen

Anders Carlsen (Chair) Medical Health Officer

Medical Office of health for Viborg County, Viborg

Phillippe Grandjean Institute of Public Health

University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Jens C. Hansen

Dep. of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Centre for Arctic Environmental Medicine, Aarhus University

Elle Laursen (until 2002)

National Board of Health, Copenhagen

Ole Mygind (from2002)

National Board of Health, Copenhagen

Elsa Nielsen

Institute of Toxicology

Danish Veterinary and Food Administration Copenhagen

Pal Weihe

Medical Health Officer ,The Faroese Hospital System Tórshavn

Hans Chr. Wulf

Department of Dermatology Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen

The Map of Greenland has kindly been made available by “Greenland Statistics”.