title: The Health of Native Americans: Toward a Biocultural Epidemiology
author:  T. Kue Young 
description: "This book is a valuable reference for researchers and health professionals working with Native communities." Canadian Journal of Public Health vol.86, no.3, May/June 1995<br /><br />"An excellent synopsis of the health status of Native Americans in the United States and Canada....Excellent features include explicit and repeated references to the heterogeneity of health status among Native Americans in various regions. The tone is respectful of the strength and resiliency<br />of Native communities in the face of enormous adversity. The section defining research `on the people, for the people, and by the people' should be studied by anyone...considering the implementation of a research project involving Native Americans....Without peer as an introduction to the health<br />problems of the indigenous peoples of North America....Physicians Physicians and public health professionals serving Native American populations, even those with years of experience, will have much to learn from the book. I certainly did."--Jonathan R. Sugarman, MD, MPH, in Journal of the American<br />Medical Association<br /><br />"I must commend Young for synthesizing into a manageable text an expansive array of statistical data on native health."--Cathleen E. Willging, Medical Anthropology Quarterly<br /><br />"This book is a valuable reference for researchers and health professionals working with Native communities."--Canadian Journal of Public Health<br /><br />"This book is a masterpiece that contains an immense amount of information. It is superbly organized, presenting, after the discussion of the extent of the problems, ideas and etiology for prevention and control strategies in the crowning chapter on biocultural epidemiology.--Annals of the<br />Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada<br /><br />"... filling a need for up-to-date comprehensive information in this important socio-medical field. This books is a masterpiece that contains an immense amount of information. It is superbly organized, presenting after the discussion of the extent of the problems, ideas and etiology for<br />prevention and control strategies in the crowning chapter on biocultural epidemiology." Otto Schaefer, M.D.- Annals RCPSC (vol. 28, no.6, Sept. 1995)
zlib_text: Health Gemugi? Rbsesfch-Libr-ary 
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  HEALING AND 
  MENTAL HEALTH 
  FOR NATIVE AMERICANS 
  
  CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 
  Stepping Stones to the Seventh Generation 
  Acknowledging the strength and vibrancy of Native American people and nations today, this series 
  examines life in contemporary Native American communities from the point of view of Native 
  concerns and values. Books in the series cover topics that are of cultural and political importance to 
  tribal peoples and that affect their possibilities for survival, in both urban and rural communities. 
  SERIES EDITORS: 
  Troy Johnson 
  American Indian Studies 
  California State University, Long Beach 
  Long Beach, CA 90840 
  trj@csulb.edu 
  Duane Champagne 
  Native Nations Law and Policy Center 
  292 Haines Hall, Box 951551 
  University of California, Los Angeles 
  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551 
  champagn@ucla.edu 
  BOOKS IN THE SERIES 
  1. Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability, 