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Effectiveness of health education to increase screening for cervical cancer among eastern-band Cherokee Indian women in North Carolina.
BACKGROUND The North Carolina Native American Cervical Cancer Prevention Project was a 5-year, National Cancer Institute-funded trial of health education designed to increase screening for cervical cancer among Native-American women in North Carolina. PURPOSE This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this education program in the Eastern-Band Cherokee target population. METH...
متن کاملCherokee choices: a diabetes prevention program in Cherokee, North Carolina.
ncmedicaljournal.com 394 NCMJ vol. 72, no. 5 ncmedicaljournal.com effective in ensuring that culturally relevant approaches are developed. A critical first step is increasing awareness of the behaviors associated with diabetes prevention and control. This is the goal of the American Indian and Alaska Native Workgroup of the National Diabetes Education Program, with initiatives such at the Move ...
متن کاملEvidence-based practice in Physiotherapy curricula: A survey of Indian Health Science Universities
Introduction: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the conscientious,explicit and judicious use of the current evidence in clinicaldecision making. The physiotherapy profession has expressed acommitment to the development and use of evidence. However,very little is known about the extent to which EBP is integrated inphysiotherapy curricula in India. The purpose of this study wasto describe integrat...
متن کاملA Casino Benefits the Mental Health of Cherokee Children
Jane Costello, a mental health researcher, was at work on a long-term study of psychiatric symptoms of children in rural North Carolina, about a quarter of them from a Cherokee reservation. Midway through the study, the Cherokees opened a casino on the reservation, providing profit-sharing payments to reservation families—suddenly lifting them out of poverty. Unexpectedly, Costello and her fell...
متن کاملBlood types of the Cherokee Indians.
This is a report and interpretation of the inherited blood types in the eastern band of Cherokee Indians residing on their reservation in the western part of North Carolina. Its significance rests on the fact that few studies are available of American Indians from the southeastern part of the United States. The Cherokee, an Iroquois-speaking tribe, once occupied land in what is now eastern Tenn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4589615