{"product_id":"hoi-hou-ka-mauli-ola-winona-k-mesiona-lee-9780824872731","title":"Ho'i Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering collection highlights the historic, groundbreaking, and fascinating work done by doctors, researchers, and healthcare providers to improve the life of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The relevance of their work impacts all of us regardless of ethnicity because the discoveries made in the search for solutions to health problems, cures to diseases, and improvements to healthcare benefit all who call Hawaiʻi, as well as the broader Pacific, home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe majority of the thirty-three contributors are affiliated with the Department of Native Hawaiian Health of the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and represent many disciplines, strategies, and programs whose research, findings, and projects are built on the contributions of pioneers in medicine and healthcare in Hawaiʻi. As such, this book is dedicated to the late Richard Kekuni Blaisdell and includes an interview with him, bringing to the fore his essential voice on Native Hawaiian health. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMauli means life, heart, spirit, our essential nature. Ola means well-being, healthy. \"Hoʻi hou ka mauli ola,\" or, bringing back the state of vibrant health, is the chief objective and the passion of the contributors. In addition to interviews, the volume includes historical information, personal narratives, mele oli, research findings, and descriptions of community programs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Winona K. Mesiona Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824872738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824872731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Winona K. Mesiona Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670670561535,"sku":"9780824872731","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77184a0b-2f85-4d10-9d1b-293ddc16398d.jpg?v=1741317073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hoi-hou-ka-mauli-ola-winona-k-mesiona-lee-9780824872731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}