Preface

Abstract

When during ICCH 11 in Harstad in 2000 we took it upon ourselves to organize ICCH 12 in Nuuk in 2003, we had no doubts whatever that we could handle the task. And we have had no such doubts during the preparations or during the congress itself either. Fortunately the organizing committee had sufficient self-confidence to live up to the confidence which IUCH and the three organizations behind the event had in us, namely the Danish/Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health, Greenlandic Doctors' Association, and Greenlandic Nurses' Association.