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.)

Table of Contents

• 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