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September 2006, Vol 96, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1536
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.093310

LETTER

LIBBY ET AL. RESPOND

Anne M. Libby, PhD, Heather D. Orton, MS and Paul Spicer, PhD

The authors are with the American Indian and Alaskan Native Programs, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, and Health Sciences Center, Aurora.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Anne M. Libby, PhD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, PO Box 6508, Campus Box F800, Aurora, CO 80045 (e-mail: anne.libby@uchsc.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We welcome the opportunity to continue the dialogue on studying American Indians’ experiences with child welfare systems. While Thompson agrees on the importance of such disparities research and a focus on caregivers, he raises an interesting question about the appropriate reference group for racial/ethnic comparisons.

Our decision to use American Indian care-givers as the reference group was hypothesis driven. We were investigating whether disparities exist for American Indian caregivers compared with others in the United States; in the interest of space, we did not report all possible contrasts. However, an interested reader could have examined all comparisons by looking at . . . [Full Text]






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