Health and Social Issues of Native American Women (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Joe, Jennie R.; Gachupin, Francine C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book serves as a much-needed source of information on the social and health issues that impact the health of Native American women in the United States, accompanied by invaluable historical, cultural, and other contextual data about this sociocultural group. Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing or misrepresented in other works about Native American women. Comprising contributions from mostly Native American women scholars, the work presents key background information on native women's health, health care delivery systems, and sociocultural history, and its chapters address the changing role of native women in Alaska and other parts of Indian country. Each author taps her specific area of expertise and knowledge to spotlight specific native women's health problems, such as nutrition, aging, domestic violence, diabetes, and substance abuse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216094975
• Artikelnr.: 68345649

Autorenporträt

Jennie R. Joe, PhD, MPH, MA, is professor emeritus in family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Francine C. Gachupin, PhD, MPHH, CIP, is operations manager of the Human Research Protection Office at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword Judith Salmon Kaur 1: Introduction Jennie R. Joe
and Francine C. Gachupin 2: Changing and Diverse Roles of Women in American
Indian Culture Teresa D. LaFromboise and Bayley J. Marquez 3: Alaska Native
Women: Forty Years of Sociocultural change Rosita Kaahani Worl 4: The
Impact of Federal Government Policies on American Indian and Alaska Native
Health Care Terry M. Maresca 5: Health Disparity: The Morbidity and
Mortality Picture Linda Burhanisstipanov 6: Becoming an Elder: Native Women
Aging Emily A. Haozous and R. Turner Goins 7: Addressing Food Security and
Food Sovereignty in Native American Communities Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
8: The Struggle with the Devastation of Diabetes Jennie R. Joe 9: Domestic
Violence in American Indian Communities: Background, Culture, and Legal
Issues Mary Rogers and Jennifer Giroux 10. Native American Women: HIV/AIDS
Risk and Activism Irene S. Vernon 11. Differences in Cancer Patterns in
American Indian/Alaska Native Women Across the U.S. Teshia G. Arambula
Solomon and Carol Goldtooth-Begay 12. Three Native Sister: Being Young and
the Need to Fit-in Nina S. Wampler and Lorenda Belone 13. Protections to
Consider when Engaging American Indians/ Alaska Natives in Human Subject
Research Francine C. Guchapin 14. Contributors' Biographies