Arctic Study Asks How Native Youth Stay Healthy

Friday, February 13, 2009 - 05:42 in Psychology & Sociology

Health researchers in four countries begin a three-year study of how 120 indigenous youth in the Arctic avoid pitfalls such as alcohol abuse and suicide to become healthy adults. A key to the NSF study is collaboration between community leaders and social scientists, so knowledge will "go sideways."

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