Publications by authors named "Tennille Marley"

The United States has an obligation to provide health care to American Indians. Services are generally provided through the Indian Health Service, tribal, or urban Indian health programs. Despite the availability of government-sponsored health services, health care access remains a concern for American Indians.

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Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms, including so-called "pure gifts," balanced exchanges, and negative reciprocity. In this paper, we examine water sharing between households as a culturally-embedded practice that may be both need-based and symbolically meaningful.

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Introduction: American Indian young adults have higher rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes than the general US population. They are also more likely than the general population to have higher rates of structural risk factors for obesity and diabetes, such as poverty, frequent changes of residence, and stress. The objective of this study was to investigate possible links between these 2 sets of problems.

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