Aspects of health services in Sami areas

Analysis of research from the Lule Sami area demonstrates how the researcher’s perspective on the Sami people and culture has changed over time, how the Sami role in history, and

People working in the health and social service sector with South Sami populations usually stress that they do not make any distinction between Sami and Norwegian users..

Healthcare professionals who identified as Sami and those who identified as non-Sami attributed the Sami service users ’ reluctance to seek and accept help to the assimilation

These rights have been important, while access to Sami symbols as the Sami language, Sami clothing and traditional way of life is decisive in establishing a Sami identity

Measure the prevalence of self-reported myocardial infarction (SMI) in Sami and non-Sami populations in rural areas of Norway, and explore whether possible ethnic differences could

There is an opinion in the northern part of Norway that the Sami are primary a rural people, and that the Kven people assimilate in the majority culture both in the rural areas and

Logically, when older South Sami people contact health and care services that do not have knowledge about the Sami culture, there is a risk of not receiving individualised care based

According to the Sa´mi Parliament, the entry of the Sami people in the ´ Norwegian constitution also ‘means that the historical rights of the Sami, their ´ ancient use of lands and