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best available panel, in composition close to
the Rockefeller group but with the added input
of health care specialists and radiation biologists
familiar with the particular problems of the
Marshall Islands.
An important additional input
into this Advisory Committee should be provided
by well-qualified representatives of other
disciplines, whose input ts critical to the
successful implementation of a new health care
system.
I refer specifically to a sociologist/
cultural anthropologist (Bob Kiste, University
of Hawaii, is probably the best candidate). This
group should really be a multidisciplinary group
to insure cultural acceptance and integration.
The Department of Interior,
in the past, has taken
some administrative actions, particularly in relation
to reparations and compensations, but has
hada
disastrous cultural impact on the Marshallese.
This
medical plan must be sensitive to this problem and
provide sound cultural advice in the pre-planning
stage.
The final Advisory Group would then consist
of 1) experts in developing health care systems in
third world nations; 2) experts in delivering medical
2): BNL care and in radiologic monitoring of the Marshallese
specifically; 3) social scientiststo insure cultural
integration; 4) Marshallese representatives to insure
cultural and political acceptance; and 5) representatives of potential professional support activities,