Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 135-143 , March 2009

Health Care for American Indian and Alaska Native Women

  • B. Josea Kramer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Sepulveda, California
    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: B. Josea Kramer, PhD, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 16111 Plummer Street (11E), Sepulveda CA 91343; Phone: 818-895-9311; fax: 818 895-9519.
    • ,
  • Stella Jouldjian, MSW, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Donna L. Washington, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Judith O. Harker, PhD

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Debra Saliba, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Sepulveda, California
    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Los Angeles, California
    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Health Services Research Center of Excellence, Sepulveda, California
    • RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
    • ,
  • Elizabeth M. Yano, PhD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Health Services Research Center of Excellence, Sepulveda, California

Received 19 August 2008 ,Revised 13 November 2008 ,Accepted 21 November 2008.

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 Supported by VA Health Services Research and Development Service, ACC 03-304; VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLAHS), Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, GLAHS Research Service and GLAHS Health Services Research Center of Excellence; Indian Health Service.

PII: S1049-3867(08)00183-7

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.11.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 135-143 , March 2009

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