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. 2018 Nov 30;15(12):2706. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15122706

Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria that were used in first-stage title and abstract screening and the second-stage full-text review to identify articles about integrated environment and health surveillance systems in Arctic and Subarctic regions of the Circumpolar North between 2005 and 2016.

Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria
Publication information Article was published in English or French Not published in English or French
Article was published between 2005 and 2016 Article was published before 2005 or after 2016
Primary or secondary study was published in a journal article Theses, conference proceedings, reports, commentaries, etc.
Article context Main site/focus and implications of the article were within “Arctic and/or Subarctic regions,” referring to High Arctic, Low Arctic, and Subarctic geographic areas in Circumpolar countries (Canada, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States) with an Arctic or Subarctic Köppen climate classification Main site/focus and implications of the article were outside Arctic or Subarctic regions of Circumpolar countries
Article focus Article involved a biophysical environment-related change(s)/exposure(s)/issue(s) Article involved an environmental change/exposure/issue that related to the built environment or “cultural landscape” created by humans
Article included one or more outcome(s), condition(s), illness(es), disease(s), status(es), indicator(s), or determinant(s) related to the health and/or wellness of humans Article did not involve any human health outcome(s), condition(s), illness(es), disease(s), status(es), indicator(s), or determinant(s)
Article focused on surveillance, defined as the continuous, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of environment and health-related data needed for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health research and/or practice, integrated with the dissemination of these data to end-users [35] Article did not focus on the development, implementation, use, or evaluation of surveillance strategies, systems, or research