Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
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| Autore: |
Kunitz Stephen J
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| Titolo: |
Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1/08997 |
| Soggetto topico: | Navajo Indians - Diseases |
| Navajo Indians - Mortality | |
| Navajo Indians - Medical care | |
| Navajo Indians - Medicine | |
| Indians of North America - Diseases - Southwest, New | |
| Indians of North America - Mortality - Southwest, New | |
| Indians of North America - Medical care - Southwest, New | |
| Indians of North America - Medicine - Southwest, New | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
| american indian | |
| career | |
| demographics | |
| disease | |
| doctors | |
| economy | |
| fertility | |
| health and wellness | |
| health care | |
| health issues | |
| health professionals | |
| indian reservation | |
| indigenous people | |
| life and death | |
| medical experts | |
| medical field | |
| medical | |
| medicinal | |
| mortality | |
| native american | |
| navajo reservation | |
| navajo | |
| physicians | |
| policy making | |
| public policy | |
| reservation life | |
| reservation | |
| scholarly | |
| social science | |
| social scientists | |
| social studies | |
| Note generali: | First paperback printing 1989. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortality, Fertility and Social Organization -- 2. Economic and Demographic Change on the Navajo Reservation -- 3. Disease Patterns on the Navajo Reservation -- 4. Traditional Navajo Health Beliefs and Practices (by Jerrold E. Levy) -- 5. Health Care Utilization (with Helena Temkin-Greener) -- 6. Changing Mortality and the Role of Medicine -- Appendix I: Data and Methods -- APPENDIX II -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Stephen Kunitz's work raises crucial issues for public policy in the medical field, and will be valuable for social scientists, physicians, and health professionals concerned with the social context of public health and other medical facilities. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Disease change and the role of medicine |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35559-7 |
| 0-520-90964-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813915203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.