http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/drought/docs/Climate%20Change.pdf

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/drought/docs/Pastoralism%20Good%20Practice%20and%20Lessons%20Learnt%20in%20Pastoralist%20Programming%20-%20DRAFT_2_27_09_2011.pdf

http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10021IIED.pdf

Thanks for your contribution. The problem is that articles about indigenous people or groups that are not mobile pastoralists pop up when doing a litterature search. Those links you sent me were unfortunately not addressing mobile pastoralists. I have only found one article focusing mobile groups in Africa/Sahel,one focusing mobile groups in Asia/Pakistan, and a few focusing mobile groups in Europe/Scandinavia. My interest is the health-related stressors spesific to the mobile pastoral lifestyle (of indigenous people) , and since there are probably 100 - 200 million mobile pastoralists globally (mostly Africa and Asia), I thought there might be a significant number of litterature here. Or, maybe, it is just an invisible part of mankind.

Using Pubmed I came up with the following search, which may be useful?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=pastoralist+health

I suggest you check forward and backwards from these references and you may come up with some more. That said, on the face of it, I think you may be right that this area is a somewhat under-researched area.

One issue in European reindeer herders that you might be interested in is the risk posed by post-Chernobyl contamination:

Article Averted Doses to Norwegian Sámi Reindeer Herders after the C...

Thank you. The Chernobyl article is interesting, don't know why I have missd it. There is maybe a misunderstanding regarding the Sámi population and the Sámi reindeer herding population, since the latter is a small subgroup, the mobile pastoralists. Therefore, most litterature about the Sámis do not address the mobile-pastoralist-spesific health risks. For example, exposure after the Chernobyl Accident due to high intake of reindeer meet was a threat to members of rendeer herding households. In addition, when doing research including reindeer herders we face some methodological challenges related to the combination of mobility and marginalization which seemes interesting in relation to the quality of the collected data.