Stigma of mental illness among American Indian and Alaska Native nations: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1001-1024

  Grandbois, Donna ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; POVERTY; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 31544433425     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840500280661     Document Type: Review

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