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Bibliography on Native Americans in Agriculture: Ethnobotany/Traditional Medicine
Bibliography on Native Americans in Agriculture: Ethnobotany/Traditional Medicine (Selected Sources from the AGRICOLA Database) ... Details >
Challenges to Health and Well-Being of Native American Communities 
To be culturally competent, health programs must begin to define community, prevention, networking, collaboration, and healing as it relates to cultural understanding and awareness.... Details >
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Traditional medicine as practiced nonprofessionally, especially by people isolated from modern medical services and usually involving the use of plant-derived remedies on an empirical basis... Details >
Getting to Know Native American Culture
Traditional AI/AN healing systems focus on balancing mind, body, and spirit within the community context.... Details >
Principles for Culturally Competent Health Care for Native Americans
Providers must seek to understand the culture of the Native American. ... Details >
Strengths and Protective Factors in Native American Families and Communities
Health services must include content and activities that are congruent with and promote the values, beliefs, and practices of the aboriginal people of the Americas. ... Details >
Traditional Asian Belief Systems
The traditional Asian view of health is holistic, linking mind, body, and soul. It focuses on establishing and maintaining a balance of life energies within each individual's unique constitution ... Details >
Traditional Beliefs of Pacific Islanders
For Pacific Islanders, the ideal concept of health has four components: the spiritual, the psychological, the physical, and the relationship with the family... Details >