David H. Dejong

Plagues, Politics, and Policy

A Chronicle of the Indian Health Service, 1955-2008

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780739146033
• ISBN-10: 0739146033
• Artikelnr.: 32306019

Autorenporträt

By David H. DeJong

Inhaltsangabe

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