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Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz



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Autore: Kunitz Stephen J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35559-7
0-520-90964-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777954703321
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Serie: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.