Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization : : The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples / / ed. by Jennie R. Joe, Robert S. Young.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Booth, Karmen G.,; Brosseau, James D.,; Carter, Janette S.,; Evaneshko, Veronica,; Garcia-Smith, Dianna,; Garro, Linda C.,; Gohdes, Dorothy,; Graham, Carol,; Hall, Teri R.,; Hickey, Martin E.,; Jackson, M. Yvonne,; Joe, Jennie R.,; Justice, James W.,; Kracht, Benjamin R.,; Lang, Gretchen Chesley,; Manahan, Elaine M.,; Murphy, Neil J.,; Pablo, Sally G.,; Schraer, Cynthia D.,; Smith, Cynthia J.,; Szathmáry, Emoke J. E.,; Tom-Orme, Lillian,; Wilson, Robert,; Wolfe, Wendy S.,; Young, Robert S.,; Young, T. Kue,; Young, Terry B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Joe, Jennie R.,; Young, Robert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 50
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Other title: i-iv --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. Diabetes prevalence in North America --; Chapter 1. Diabetes among Canadian Indians and Inuit: An epidemiological overview --; Chapter 2. Diabetes and Indians: A clinician’s perspective --; II. Tribal and regional studies --; Chapter 3. The history of diabetes mellitus in the Desert People --; Chapter 4. Many Farms revisited: Evidence of increasing weight and non-insulin dependent diabetes in a Navajo community --; Chapter 5. Diabetes among the Kiowa: An ethnohistorical perspective --; Chapter 6. Diabetes among the Alaska Natives – The emergence of a chronic disease with changing life-styles --; Chapter 7. Diabetes and pregnancy among Alaska Natives: Prevalence and sociocultural aspects --; Chapter 8. Factors that influence the onset of diabetes in Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories --; III. Cultural issues and health beliefs --; Chapter 9. Traditional beliefs and attitudes about diabetes among Navajos and Utes --; Chapter 10. Explanations of diabetes: Anishinaabeg and Dakota deliberate upon a new illness --; Chapter 11. Perceptions of diabetes by Indian adolescents --; Chapter 12. Presenting complaints in a Navajo Indian diabetic population --; IV. Culture and diet --; Chapter 13. Diet, culture, and diabetes --; Chapter 14. Food habit and cultural changes among the Pima Indians --; Chapter 15. Dietary change among the Navajo: Implications for diabetes --; V. Medical perspectives --; Chapter 16. Cultural barriers to delivering health care: The non-Indian provider perspective --; Chapter 17. The Gila River Diabetes Prevention Model --; Chapter 18. Community approaches to diabetes prevention --; Contributors --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110853148; 9783110637878
• ISSN: 0077-801X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110853148
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jennie R. Joe, Robert S. Young.