Plagues, Politics, and Policy - A Chronicle of the Indian Health Service, 1955-2008

Informationen zum Autor David H. Dejong holds a PhD from the University of Arizona, has worked in Indian country for 18 years and is author of 'If You Knew the Conditions':A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955. Klappentext Plagues, Politics, and Policy is an overview of the major health challenges confronting American Indians and Alaska Natives over the past fifty years and is a case study of the federal government's attempt to provide medical services to a categorical group of people in the United States. While it is not a detailed Analysis of what socialized healthcare should or should not look like, it does examine the major social and political issues affecting the delivery of health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Tables 2 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction 4 One: Now that You Know the Conditions 5 Two: Overcoming Generations of Neglect 6 Three: Beginnings of a Community Health Program 7 Four: On the Threshold of a New Era? 8 Five: The Era of Self-Determination 9 Six: An Agency of the Public Health Service 10 Seven: Into the Twenty-first Century

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• Authors: David Dejong, David H. Dejong, DeJong David H.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780739146033
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4603-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, c 2000 to c 2010, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Relating to Native American people, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Health systems and services, Central government policies