Complications with use of IUD and oral contraceptives among Navajo women.

OF THE APPROXIMATELY 800,000 American Indians in the United States, about 130,000, or 15 to 20 percent, are Navajos living on or near a 24,000-square mile reservation in northern Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Utah. Demographically, this population is similar to the populations of developing countries, with a rapid population growth resulting from a high birth rate and a declining death rate over the past 20 to 30 years. The Navajo population is, for the most part, rural, dependent upon subsistence livestock raising, welfare, and occa-