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Reconceptualizing native women's health: an 'indigenist' stress-coping model
- Source :
- American journal of public health. 92(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- This commentary presents an “indigenist” model of Native women's health, a stress-coping paradigm that situates Native women's health within the larger context of their status as a colonized people. The model is grounded in empirical evidence that traumas such as the “soul wound” of historical and contemporary discrimination among Native women influence health and mental health outcomes. The preliminary model also incorporates cultural resilience, including as moderators identity, enculturation, spiritual coping, and traditional healing practices. Current epidemiological data on Native women's general health and mental health are reconsidered within the framework of this model.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Coping (psychology)
Poison control
Colonialism
Models, Psychological
Violence
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Adaptation, Psychological
medicine
Humans
Spirituality
Mortality
Minority Groups
Social Identification
business.industry
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Race Relations
Mental health
Acculturation
United States
Enculturation
Indians, North American
Women's Health
Female
Public Health
Future Health Needs of Women of Color
Morbidity
business
Social psychology
Prejudice
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00900036
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American journal of public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3ab17437573a77547d8d45a2ee0c8155