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Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization
The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous PeoplesISSN, Band 50 1. Reprint 2012
229,00 € |
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Verlag: | De Gruyter |
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Veröffentl.: | 13.02.2012 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783110853148 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 534 |
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Beschreibungen
i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Diabetes prevalence in North America -- Chapter 1. Diabetes among Canadian Indians and Inuit: An epidemiological overview -- Chapter 2. Diabetes and Indians: A clinician’s perspective -- II. Tribal and regional studies -- Chapter 3. The history of diabetes mellitus in the Desert People -- Chapter 4. Many Farms revisited: Evidence of increasing weight and non-insulin dependent diabetes in a Navajo community -- Chapter 5. Diabetes among the Kiowa: An ethnohistorical perspective -- Chapter 6. Diabetes among the Alaska Natives – The emergence of a chronic disease with changing life-styles -- Chapter 7. Diabetes and pregnancy among Alaska Natives: Prevalence and sociocultural aspects -- Chapter 8. Factors that influence the onset of diabetes in Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories -- III. Cultural issues and health beliefs -- Chapter 9. Traditional beliefs and attitudes about diabetes among Navajos and Utes -- Chapter 10. Explanations of diabetes: Anishinaabeg and Dakota deliberate upon a new illness -- Chapter 11. Perceptions of diabetes by Indian adolescents -- Chapter 12. Presenting complaints in a Navajo Indian diabetic population -- IV. Culture and diet -- Chapter 13. Diet, culture, and diabetes -- Chapter 14. Food habit and cultural changes among the Pima Indians -- Chapter 15. Dietary change among the Navajo: Implications for diabetes -- V. Medical perspectives -- Chapter 16. Cultural barriers to delivering health care: The non-Indian provider perspective -- Chapter 17. The Gila River Diabetes Prevention Model -- Chapter 18. Community approaches to diabetes prevention -- Contributors -- Index of subjects