American Indians’ Growing Presence In The Health Professions

Moral distress: a growing problem in the health professions?

North American Indians: Indians of the Plains

THE PLAINS The Plains region, an area delineated by the Rocky Mountains on the west; the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba on the north; the Mississippi River on the east; and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, is home to philosophies, traditions, and ways of life that are some of the most varied and complex in the United States. The Great Plains measure 1,125,000 square m...

Health Risks and Conditions among American Indians in North Carolina

Objectives: North Carolina has the eighth largest American Indian population in the United States. American Indians have high death rates for a number of specific causes of death. However, North Carolina has lacked comprehensive statewide information about health risks in its American Indian populations. The objective of this study is to examine health risks and conditions among adult North Car...

Health implications of obesity in American Indians and Alaska Natives.

American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, increasing rates of coronary artery disease and hypertension, and poor survival rates for breast cancer that are likely partially attributable to the increasing prevalence of obesity over the past generation. Obesity may also contribute to the high rates of gallstones and to adverse outcomes of pregnancy in A...

The Dentition of American Indians

This chapter uses dental morphology to make inferences about how the New World was first colonized. The major emphasis is on the initial Macro-Indian migration based on dental traits observed in Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and more recent prehistoric crania. The major results are as follows: (1) Arctic and Subarctic native dentitions differ enough from those of Macro-Indians to indicate separate mig...