Native American-Serving Nontribal InstitutionSOCIAL NORMSCOLLEGEObjectiveMultiple national and international studies of college student COVID-19 vaccination have been recently published, providing important des
This highlighted protective factors, such as American Indian and Alaska Native community public health achievements, with some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US.1 American Indian and Alaska Native strengths-based approaches warrant evaluation, as they attenuated the co...
31 These high rates of diabetes have been attributed to sedentary lifestyle (in part from loss of the traditional active lifestyle), and distribution of unhealthy food to Native American communities.10 These conditions are known to predispose to the prevalence and deaths from COVID-19 infection....
Thus, findings may not be generalized to other racial and ethnic groups or to urban American Indian and Alaska Native individuals elsewhere in the US. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the fielding of follow-up assessments, delayed obtaining anthropometric measures that required in-person ...
Getting people to agree to covid-19 vaccination is an ongoing challenge in the US. But one demographic group shines, reports Joanne Silberner Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that Native American groups—American Indians and Alaska Natives—have consistently ...
Narratives from African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic/Latinx community members in Arizona to enhance COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination uptakeAfrican American/BlackCOVID-19IndigenousLatinxMedical mistrustVaccine hesitancy
American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIAN) bear the greatest burden of diabetes and are overrepresented in the dialysis population. They were also hardest hit by COVID-19, w/higher mortality rates than any U.S. racial/ethnic group. Early in the pandemic, hyperferritinemia was prognostic of poor ...
This highlighted protective factors, such as American Indian and Alaska Native community public health achievements, with some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US.1 American Indian and Alaska Native strengths-based approaches warrant evaluation, as they attenuated the co...
Prevalence of COVID-19 infection and vaccination did not vary by food security status after adjustment for confounders. Conclusions: High rates of food insecurity among American Indian and Alaska Native communities likely increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite the high prevalence of...
Honolulu Emergency Services Department Director Jim Ireland said that on a recent morning, there were four COVID-19 patient 911 calls in a row for Nanakuli, a community that's home to many Native Hawaiians. He noted thatvaccination ratesare lower on the west side of Oahu. ...