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  • The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology

    The Health of Native Americans by Young, T. Kue;

    Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 12 May 1994

    • ISBN 9780195073393
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 242x168x21 mm
    • Weight 599 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations line figures, tables
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    Short description:

    The book offers a comprehensive view of the health of Native Americans in the United States and Canada. The author emphasizes the interaction of biology and culture in disease causation, distribution, and control.

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    Long description:

    This comprehensive review of the health of Native Americans in Canada and the United States presents historical trends in population and health status from pre-European contact to the present day. These are examined in terms of three groups of diseases: infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and injuries. The author discusses the etiology and pathogenesis of different diseases in each group, and considers the genetic and environmental risk factors involved. The incidence of disease among Native Americans and non-Native Americans are compared and variations among Native Americans belonging to different geographical, cultural and linguistic groups are examined. The Health of Native Americans integrates anthropology and epidemiology to demonstrate the interaction of biology and culture on disease causation, distribution and control offering a promising approach to understanding and improving the health status of Native Americans.

    'without peer as an introduction to the health problems of the indigenous peoples of North America ... I will recommend it to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students seeking information on Indian health. Physicians and public health professionals serving Native American populations, even those with years of experience, will have much to learn from the book, I certainly did.'
    Jonathan R. Sugarman, JAMA, February 1995, Vol. 273, No. 6

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