Alaska is in a particularly critical period. The transition from territory to state presents complex tasks of organization to be accomplished with as little disturbance of functions as is humanly possible. New sources of revenue are to be tapped. New programs are to be initiated. Established services, formerly provided by federal agencies, are passing to the state. Alaska is in many respects still a frontier, undergoing settlement and early growth. A large segment of the population is moving from a primitive hunter's culture to the culture of the nuclear age almost in a single generation. Another segment is composed of transient military personnel and their dependents. The remainder is a complex of established settlers, newcomers, and seasonal workers, with multiplying demands for public services. A review of Alaska's health at this juncture seems timely. The successful development of Alaska as a home and as a resource for a democratic people depends on what is done to promote the health and vigor of all who live and work there, for this generation and generations to come. It is with this thought above all that the following pages consider the status and development of health in Alaska, the largest and the least developed of the 50 States.
Notes
Alaska Medical Library - From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 106.
UAA - ALASKA RA447.A4A4 1960
UAF - ALASKA RA447.A4A4 1960
Cited in: Fortuine, Robert. 1968. The Health of the Eskimos: a bibliography 1857-1967. Dartmouth College Libraries. Citation number 375.