Author: Pan American Health Organization. Advisory Committee on Medical ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Biomedical Challenges Presented by the American Indian
Author: Pan American Health Organization. Advisory Committee on Medical ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System
Author: U. S. Commission on Civil RightsPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482551396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The report reveals that the Native American health care system created by the federal government has used only limited and incremental responses to the health care challenges faced by Native Americans.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Research in Education
Author: Nutrition, Growth, and Development of North American Indian Children
Author: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Indian children
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
International Biological Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description
Legal Services Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyPublisher:
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Category : Legal services
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Life on Ice
Author: Joanna RadinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644824X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially invaluable biological information about genetic ancestry, evolution, microbes, and much more. Today, they persist in freezers as part of a global tissue-based infrastructure. In Life on Ice, Joanna Radin examines how and why these frozen blood samples shaped the practice known as biobanking. The Cold War projects Radin tracks were meant to form an enduring total archive of indigenous blood before it was altered by the polluting forces of modernity. Freezing allowed that blood to act as a time-traveling resource. Radin explores the unique cultural and technical circumstances that created and gave momentum to the phenomenon of life on ice and shows how these preserved blood samples served as the building blocks for biomedicine at the dawn of the genomic age. In an era of vigorous ethical, legal, and cultural debates about genetic privacy and identity, Life on Ice reveals the larger picture—how we got here and the promises and problems involved with finding new uses for cold human blood samples.