The Health of Native Americans: Toward a Biocultural Epidemiology

by T. Kue Young

This book provides a comprehensive review of the health of Native Americans in Canada and the United States. Historical trends in population and health status from pre-European contact to the present are examined in three groups of diseases: infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and injuries. The author discusses the etiology and pathogenesis of different diseases in each group, and weighs genetic and environmental risk factors. He also compares...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073398
• ISBN13: 9780195073393
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"