Psychological effects of technological/human-caused environmental disasters: Examination of the Navajo and uranium

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-45

  Markstrom, Carol A ^a   Charley, Perry H ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dine College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPENSATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TECHNOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ANXIETY; CHILD; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; URANIUM;

EID: 0642342609     PISSN: 15337731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5820/aian.1101.2003.19     Document Type: Review

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