Primary Care of Native American Patients: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Epidemiology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750699892 ISBN 13: 9780750699891

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998

Synopsis

This concise reference provides clinicians with the information they need to successfully treat and manage Native American patients. Emphasis is on the unique medical differences between Native American and standard U.S. (anglo) diseases and health care procedures.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

EFFECTIVE Provides the information needed to successfully manage Native American patients

UNIQUE Presents the material that standard clinical texts leave out with regard to the Native American population

COMPREHENSIVE Covers direct patient care, the issue of traditional healing, community health, and the history of patient health care Primary Care of Native American Patients Diagnosis, Therapy, and Epidemiology is a practical reference for physicians and other health care professionals who work with patients in the Native American populations. Developed as a manual to supplement conventional textbooks, this text successfully demonstrates how disorders vary in presentation and treatment for Native American patients. Physical, mental, spiritual, and social impacts of treatment are considered throughout the text.

About the Author:

Dr. Goldberg served two Oregon Governors as the Director of the Oregon Office for Health Policy and Research, the Director of the Oregon Department of Human Services from November 2005 through February 2011, and then led the formation of the Oregon Health Authority from February 2011 through 2013. He led Oregon's nationally recognized health reforms transforming Oregon’s Medicaid system to one based on a model of coordinated care. In addition, he led efforts to establish Oregon’s Healthy Kids program providing health coverage for all children, improve Oregon’s mental health system and transform the delivery of public human services to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Dr. Goldberg's experiences span time as an administrator of large complex organizations, a practicing clinician, teacher/academician, a county health officer, medical director for a Medicaid managed care organization, and Director of Community Health Services for the US Public Health Services in Zuni, New Mexico. He has been a faculty member at Oregon Health and Science University for more than 15 years. He is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed his family medicine training at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0750699892
• ISBN 13: 9780750699891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Galloway MD FACP FACC James M., Goldberg MD Bruce W.