Challenges to providing quality substance abuse treatment services for American Indian and Alaska native communities: Perspectives of staff from 18 treatment centers

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Legha, Rupinder ^a   Raleigh Cohn, Ashley ^b   Fickenscher, Alexandra ^b   Novins, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services research; Indians; North American; Organizational case studies; Substance abuse treatment centers

Indexed keywords

ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; MINORITY GROUP; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MINORITY GROUPS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84902302107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-14-181     Document Type: Article

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