Sámi traditional medicine: practices, usage, benefit, accessibility and relation to conventional medicine, a scoping review study

The Sámi Indigenous populations, who live in the arctic Sápmi area across four countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia – have practiced traditional medicine (TM) for millennia. However, today Sámi TM is unknown within the Swedish health care services (HCS). The aim of th...

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Main Authors: Jing Liu-Helmersson, Anne Ouma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:International Journal of Circumpolar Health
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1924993