Changing patterns of health and disease among the aleuts

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-69

  Keenleyside, Anne ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; UMNAK ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942280499     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0069     Document Type: Article

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