Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 77-96
Description
Investigates how confinement on reservations lead to changes in subsistence, child care and housing that contributed to infant deaths from pneumonia, gastrointestinal disorders, tuberculosis, heart disease, and syphilis.