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Native American communities face significant inequity in health care and health status compared to other U.S. populations. Health outcomes for Native Americans are adversely impacted by wholly inadequate access to comprehensive health services.
American Indians and Alaska Natives are entitled to federally funded health care. Here's how that works and why activists want the system to be reformed.
Click here to find health care and resources specifically for American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. The IHS and Department of Veterans Affairs created this interactive map using data from 41 urban Indian organizations with 82 locations and 1,500 VA health care facilities.
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) is a racial/ethnic category that describes people with ancestry indigenous to North America prior to colonization in 1492. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, there were approximately 9.7 million Americans who identified as Native American alone or as Native American in combination with another race. Despite millions of Americans identifying as AI/AN, Quin ...
Until now some Native Americans have accessed traditional health care practices through IHS appropriations, Tribal resources, various pilot programs, and grants.
This profile offers an overview of the social, economic, and environmental factors that shape the health of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population in the United States.
Tribal leaders say it’s imperative all medical and nursing students receive education specifically on providing health care to Indigenous people. “Culturally sensitive care” refers to the idea that people of different backgrounds may face unique barriers in accessing Western health care systems.
This activity reviews the history of the American Indian and Alaskan Native community, the etiology and epidemiology of the healthcare disparities, and highlights the interprofessional team's role in bridging this gap in healthcare disparity.
One area where AHRQ can take a leadership role would be in developing a Native American National Household Survey, which could identify gaps in healthcare delivery, opioid-related care, suicide, maternal health, and social determinants of health. AHRQ’s data products should set baselines for documentable, quantifiable quality improvement.
This report presents estimates for selected health conditions and health care use among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) adults by tribal land residential status.