American Indians joined these debates, often suggesting different explanations. Europeans and Americans also struggled to respond to the disparities, sometimes working to relieve them, sometimes taking advantage of the ill health of American Indians. Economic and political interests have always affected ...
Administrative Core The Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Disparities will flow administratively through the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health within the Colorado School of Public Health at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado Denver, and capitaliz...
Research and educational programs have the potential to improve health care. American Indians (AIs) suffer from considerable health disparities as compared with the general U.S. population, including significantly higher incidence and prevalence of preventable diseases like diabetes, alcoholism, and their...
Those results―and data showing that Native people in some cities reported having more difficulty getting health care than urbanites of other backgrounds―show special attention must be paid to the health disparities for urban Indians, Tualii said. For the third year in a row, President Bush’s...
Recognizing that there has been a lack of systematic teaching about the unique mental health experiences of urban American Indians, this article examines data from national studies and specific case studies to illustrate some issues regarding the mental health of American Indians in urban areas. Some...
Health disparities can be especially dramatic for American Indians because of a variety of powerful forces that include poverty, isolation, low educational achievement, and a unique political relationship that dictates the design of special healthcare delivery mechanisms. The challenge facing nursing leader...
American Indians and Alaska Natives suffer significant health disparities for many infectious and chronic diseases as compared to the general population. Providing accurate and culturally tailored health information to underserved groups has been shown to influence health behaviors and health outcomes. Little...
Despite overall declines in morbidity and mortality in the United States in recent years, a persistent gap in health status remains between American Indians (AIs) and non-Hispanic whites.1,2 This report compares the health status of AIs with that of other racial/ethnic minority populations by us...
American Indians and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations experience significant health disparities compared to non-Hispanic white populations. Cardiovascular disease and related risk factors are increasingly recognized as growing indicators of global health disparities. However, comparative reports on disparities...
Cambodian, or Laotian. Asian Indians far outpace the nation’s median income of about $70,000, earning on average nearly$120,000 annually. That’s more than twice the average income earned by people in more than a dozen other Asian subgroups, including people who are Thai, Nepalese, and ...