Mark C Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 8745904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark C Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diné College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Diné (Navajo) Traditional Knowledge Holders’ Perspective of Covid-19
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Navajo Nation, Diné (Navajo) traditional knowledge holders (TKHs), such as medicine men and women and traditional practitioners, contributed their services and healing practices. Although TKHs are not always fully acknowledged in the western health care system, they have an established role to protect and promote the health of Diné people. To date, their roles in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic have…
Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
Native American 1 populations are systematically marginalized in the healthcare and public health workforce. One effective approach to reduce health disparities and improve health care delivery among Indigenous populations is to train more Native American health professionals who integrate academic and cultural knowledge to understand and influence health behaviors and perspectives. Diné College partnered with Northern Arizona University to devel…
Adapting a Cancer Literacy Measure for Use Among Navajo Women
Purpose: The authors designed a community-based participatory research study to develop and test a family-based behavioral intervention to improve cancer literacy and promote mammography among Navajo women. Method: Using data from focus groups and discussions with a community advisory committee, they adapted an existing questionnaire to assess cancer knowledge, barriers to mammography, and cancer beliefs for use among Navajo women. Questions meas…
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers
Anthropologists have long discussed the value and limitations of various methods of describing and understanding behavior. This article demonstrates that utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods can improve our understanding of complex behaviors. Ethnographic interviews were used to create a decision tree model of the choice of breastfeeding or formula feeding for Navajo women. This preliminary model was tested with reference to the in…
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Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Model Infant Feeding Behavior among Navajo Mothers
Anthropologists have long discussed the value and limitations of various methods of describing and understanding behavior. This article demonstrates that utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods can improve our understanding of complex behaviors. Ethnographic interviews were used to create a decision tree model of the choice of breastfeeding or formula feeding for Navajo women. This preliminary model was tested with reference to the in…
Adapting a Cancer Literacy Measure for Use Among Navajo Women
Purpose: The authors designed a community-based participatory research study to develop and test a family-based behavioral intervention to improve cancer literacy and promote mammography among Navajo women. Method: Using data from focus groups and discussions with a community advisory committee, they adapted an existing questionnaire to assess cancer knowledge, barriers to mammography, and cancer beliefs for use among Navajo women. Questions meas…
Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
Native American 1 populations are systematically marginalized in the healthcare and public health workforce. One effective approach to reduce health disparities and improve health care delivery among Indigenous populations is to train more Native American health professionals who integrate academic and cultural knowledge to understand and influence health behaviors and perspectives. Diné College partnered with Northern Arizona University to devel…
Diné (Navajo) Traditional Knowledge Holders’ Perspective of Covid-19
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Navajo Nation, Diné (Navajo) traditional knowledge holders (TKHs), such as medicine men and women and traditional practitioners, contributed their services and healing practices. Although TKHs are not always fully acknowledged in the western health care system, they have an established role to protect and promote the health of Diné people. To date, their roles in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic have…
Navajo (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work)