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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Mortality, Fertility and Social Organization 8 2. Economic and Demographic Change on the Navajo Reservation 26 3. Disease Patterns on the Navajo Reservation 64 4. Traditional Navajo Health Beliefs and Practices (by Jerrold E. Levy) 118 5. Health Care Utilization (with Helena Temkin-Greener) 146 6. Changing Mortality and the Role of Medicine 179 Appendix I: Data and Methods 189 Appendix II: Additional Tables 195 Notes 199 References 203 Index 221 This page intentionally left blank ...

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