Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Changing Numbers, Changing Needs""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""QUESTIONS AND ISSUES""; ""MAJOR FINDINGS""; ""What Are the Major Population and Health Trends?""; ""How Do We Identify, Enumerate, and Sample the Population?""; ""How Are American Indians Faring Economically and Socially?""; ""What Are Some Major Health Problems Facing American Indians?""; ""Are American Indians Receiving Adequate Healthcare?""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE AND OTHER POLICIES""; ""QUESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH""; ""References""
  • ""I Overview of Demographic and Health Conditions""""2 The Size and Distribution of the American Indian Population: Fertility, Mortality, Migration, and Residence""; ""REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE""; ""Fertility""; ""Mortality""; ""Migration""; ""SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE DATA""; ""Fertility and Mortality Data""; ""Migration Data""; ""FERTILITY""; ""Age at First Birth""; ""Children Ever Born""; ""Tribal Differences in Children Ever Born""; ""Residential Differences in Children Ever Born""; ""MORTALITY""; ""Summary Measures of Mortality""; ""Infant Mortality""; ""Leading Causes of Death""
  • ""POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION""""Regional Distribution""; ""Place of Residence: Urban and Rural Population""; ""Place of Residence: Reservation Populations""; ""Migration""; ""CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""References""; ""3 Recent Health Trends In The Native American Population""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES""; ""OVERALL TRENDS""; ""RELATIVE RISKS""; ""REGIONAL VARIATIONS""; ""HEALTH DETERMINANTS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""II Identification: Indications and Consequences""; ""4 The Growing American Indian Population, 1960â€?1990: Beyond Demography""
  • ""INTRODUCTION""""Data Collection Methods""; ""Overview of the Chapter""; ""NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS""; ""Population Size and Growth Rate""; ""Error of Closure""; ""SOURCES OF NONDEMOGRAPHIC INCREASE""; ""Ancestry and Race""; ""Age Patterns of Increase""; ""Birth Statistics""; ""GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION""; ""Errors of Closure for States""; ""Births and Deaths""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Tribal Membership Requirements and the Demography of ""Old"" and ""New"" Native Americans ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; """"OLD"" AND ""NEW"" NATIVE AMERICANS""; ""TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS""
  • ""IMPLICATIONS OF URBANIZATION AND INTERMARRIAGE""""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""6 Problems in Sampling the Native American and Alaska Native Populations""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""TWO EXAMPLES OF SURVEYS OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION""; ""PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION""; ""THE PROBLEM OF CULTURAL SUBGROUPS""; ""A SAMPLING STRATEGY""; ""CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""III Social and Economic Conditions""; ""7 The Individual Economic Well-Being of Native American Men and Women During the 1980s: A Decade of Moving Backwards""; ""INTRODUCTION""