Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)—IPY Meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada (June 2009), and AMAP Human Health Assessment 2009

Jens Würgler Hansen ,Jon Øyvind Odland,Gina Muckle,Kelly Skinner,Pierre Ayotte,Shawn G Donaldson,Jay Van Oostdam,Bente Deutch,Eva Cecilie Bonefeld-Jørgensen,Torkjel M Sandanger,Arild Vaktskjold,Constantine Tikhonov,Arja Rautio,Christopher Furgal ,Markku J Savolainen ,Henning Sloth Pedersen ,Jean-Philippe Weber ,Anders Helles Carlsen ,Pál Weihe ,Kristín Ólafsdóttir ,Andrew P Gilman ,Éric Dewailly ,Alexey A Dudarev ,James Berner

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12315-3_7

Abstract

The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Human Health Assessment Group (HHAG) undertook an assessment and meeting to summarize arctic contaminant and human health research undertaken during the International Polar Years (IPYs). This meeting took place in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, on June 10–12, 2009. This report summarizes the much more voluminous document AMAP Assessment 2009: Human Health in the Arctic (AMAP 2009a) that was released and discussed at the Iqaluit meeting.

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