Qualitative study of the use of traditional healing by asthmatic Navajo families

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Van Sickle, David ^b   Morgan, Frank ^b   Wright, Anne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILOSOPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES;

EID: 0642281387     PISSN: 15337731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5820/aian.1101.2003.1     Document Type: Article

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