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Lakota Health Care Access and the Perpetuation of Poverty on Pine Ridge

In: The Economics of Health and Wellness: Anthropological Perspectives

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  • Kathleen Pickering
  • Bethany Mizushima

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Poor health conditions are a major factor in perpetuating poverty on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This chapter explores the ways in which market-based health care delivery systems shirk health care costs of Lakota households on the periphery of the market economy. Furthermore, the economic value of health care services provided by these same marginal households is understated because market-based health care privileges commodified biomedicine. Examining economic activity beyond formal market integration reveals how households least able to bear the costs of health care subsidize the market economy at the expense of their own efforts to move out of poverty.

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  • Kathleen Pickering & Bethany Mizushima, 2007. "Lakota Health Care Access and the Perpetuation of Poverty on Pine Ridge," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: The Economics of Health and Wellness: Anthropological Perspectives, pages 11-33, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-1281(07)26001-9
    DOI: 10.1016/S0190-1281(07)26001-9
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