American indian health and nursing /
Margaret P. Moss.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Precontact indigenous North America / Postcontact, sovereignty, and health ; The roots of American Indian "nursing" / The Indian health system and nursing / Beyond the IHS : indigenous knowledge and traditional approaches to health and healing / AI/AN elders : mapping cultural areas and regional variances in health / Northeastern Woodlands / Southeastern Woodlands / American Indian tribes of the Southwest / Great Basin / California Indians / Pacific Northwest/Plateau / Alaska / Northern Great Plains / Urban American Indians / Indian health funding : time for change / The Future of Nursing Report and American Indian nursing education / Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. -- Margaret P. Moss -- Ruth E. Meilstrup and Margaret P. Moss -- S. Neyooxet Greymorning -- Margaret P. Moss -- Marilynn Malerba -- Lee Anne Nichols -- Nicolle L. Gonzales -- Lillian Tom-Orme -- Bette Jacobs -- C. June Strickland -- Christopher M. Nelson -- Margaret P. Moss and Donna M. Grandbois -- Lisa Martin and Margaret P. Moss -- Marilynn Malerba and Margaret P. Moss -- Margaret P. Moss.
"Written by and for nurses, this is the first text to focus exclusively on American Indian health and nursing. In fact, it is likely the only nursing book to even mention American Indian health as a distinct entity. The text addresses the profound disparities in policy, health care law, and health outcomes that affect American Indians, and describes how these disparities, woven into the cultural, environmental, historical, and geopolitical fabric of American Indian society, are responsible for the marked lack of well-being among American Indians"--Provided by publisher
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Transcultural nursing--United States. Indians of North America. Transcultural nursing. Cultural competence.