book chapter

Health of the Navajo-Hopi Indians

Journal of the American Medical Association139Published In 1949 • Pages: 370-376

By: Moorman, Lewis Jefferson.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a medical report on conditions on the Navajo Reservation with emphasis on recommendations for improving the Navajo medical service. The author and his colleagues were members of a special team of physicians who were sent by the Department of Interior as members of the American Medical Association.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Morbidity
Hospitals and clinics
Public health and sanitation
Shamans and psychotherapists
Medical personnel
Dependencies
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Navajo
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2004
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southwest and Basin
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Physician
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1948
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1868-1948
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Navajo Reservation, southwestern United States
NotesAdditional notes
Lewis J. Moorman
This document consists of excerpts
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
07037314
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Navajo Indians