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Cultural Competence in Caring for American Indians and …

(5 days ago) WebContemporary healthcare demands culturally competent interventions that recognize individual needs while fostering a connection to the broader context, considering factors such as race, culture, and gender. These interventions are paramount for minority groups such as American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). Approximately half of AI/AN …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK570619/

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'People die like that': Native Americans face serious barriers in

(1 days ago) WebBecause Native Americans face high rates of historical and ongoing trauma, Bruised Head, from Crow Tribal Health, said trauma-informed care is another crucial piece to the puzzle. Where culturally sensitive care acknowledges a patient’s unique identity, trauma-informed care addresses a patient’s entire life experience to provide quality care.

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/reporting/people-die-native-americans-face-serious-barriers-accessing-care

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Identifying Disparities in Health Outcomes and Mortality …

(7 days ago) WebThe American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population experiences more severe health risks and disparities as compared with other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. 1, 2 However, the examination of AI/AN health outcomes beyond race is limited and demands attention, especially at the tribal level. AI/AN tribes are sovereign …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306427

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Three Levels of Autonomy and One Long-Term Solution …

(9 days ago) WebHistorical trauma casts a long shadow over Native Americans’ health care interactions today. For instance, in the 1970s, about one-third of Native children were removed from their families and tribes and taken to …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/three-levels-autonomy-and-one-long-term-solution-native-american-health-care/2020-10

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Caring for Native Americans Journal of Ethics American …

(6 days ago) WebThree Levels of Autonomy and One Long-Term Solution for Native American Health Care. Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH and Beth Mittelstet, MD. Native Americans suffer poverty and significant health inequity …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/caring-native-americans

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Native Americans: A Crisis in Health Equity - American Bar …

(5 days ago) WebIn July 2003, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report that outlined civil rights disparities in health care for Native Americans. Unfortunately, most of the findings in that report are still true 15 years later. Moreover, the scale of the crisis has expanded given population increases and the inability of funding to keep pace.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/the-state-of-healthcare-in-the-united-states/native-american-crisis-in-health-equity/

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Trauma-Informed Caring for Native American Patients …

(1 days ago) WebOlder models, stressing medical compliance and mental health management by one clinician have been replaced with interprofessional models of Native care. 29,30 This model stresses a patient-centered approach wherein the patient or family is part of the team (both theoretically and in practice), helping to make care decisions with other health

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/trauma-informed-caring-native-american-patients-and-communities-prioritizes-healing-not-management/2021-06

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Native American health care: How the U.S. Indian Health Service …

(3 days ago) WebIndigenous Americans call for reform of federally-guaranteed health care. American Indians and Alaska Natives are entitled to federally funded health care under treaties negotiated between tribal

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/03/native-american-health-care-how-the-us-indian-health-service-works.html

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Culture and Cures: Healing Native American Health AAMC

(4 days ago) WebCulture and Cures: Healing Native American Health. By Stacy Weiner, Senior Staff Writer. Sept. 5, 2017. The event began ceremoniously, with a spiritual leader lighting a ritual pipe, sharing a traditional Ojibwe prayer, and blessing those assembled with a smoldering batch of sage. These age-old customs launched a meeting on a brand-new …

https://www.aamc.org/news/culture-and-cures-healing-native-american-health

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Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t …

(8 days ago) WebMany Native Americans live in small towns or on poor, rural reservations. But rurality alone doesn’t explain the gap in life expectancy. For example, white people in rural Montana live 17 years longer, on average, than Native Americans in the state, according to state data reported by Lee Enterprises newspapers.

https://www.the-journal.com/articles/native-americans-have-shorter-life-spans-better-health-care-isnt-the-only-answer/

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Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and …

(7 days ago) WebAmerican Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations have substantial health inequities, and most of their disease entities begin in childhood. In addition, AI/AN children and adolescents have excessive disease rates compared with the general pediatric population. Because of this, providers of pediatric care are in a unique position not only …

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/147/4/e2021050498/180860/Caring-for-American-Indian-and-Alaska-Native

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Racialization as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity for Native …

(5 days ago) WebAlthough race as a biological category has been disavowed by professional societies, including the American Public Health Association, 2 the American Sociological Association, 3 the American Anthropological Association, 4 and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 5 clinicians often invoke biological differences based on …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/racialization-barrier-achieving-health-equity-native-americans/2020-10

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Navajo Nation constructs new medical facility to improve health …

(4 days ago) WebGanado is home to Sage Memorial Hospital, a Native-managed comprehensive health-care system serving thousands of people in surrounding Navajo communities. The medical facility has operated out of its current facilities since 1930. Back then, the outpatient building, Poncel Hall, was home to the first Native American nursing …

https://crh.arizona.edu/news/navajo-nation-constructs-new-medical-facility-improve-health-care

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Psychiatrist bridges gaps between Native cultures and behavioral …

(7 days ago) WebThis lack of mental health care has impacted the Native American community at large. The suicide mortality rate for American Indian/Alaska Native individuals (39.7 suicides per 100,000 population

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/psychiatrist-bridges-gaps-between-native-cultures-and-behavioral-health-care/ar-BB1m7v36

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American Indian, Alaska Native communities face - Yahoo

(3 days ago) WebRead full article. American Indians and Native Alaskans face a “disproportionate burden” of oral health disease in the U.S. from childhood onward, a crisis with roots in structural racism and

https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-indian-alaska-native-communities-110005709.html

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Native Americans have shorter life spans, and it's not just due to …

(4 days ago) WebArielle Zionts/KFF Health News. Native Americans tend to die much earlier than White Americans. Their median age at death was 14 years younger, according to an analysis of 2018-21 data from the

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/native-americans-life-expectancy-health-care/

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Native American Treatment Centers in New Jersey - Psychology …

(7 days ago) WebNative American "Our vision is to provide individualized sub-acute detox services in a loving family environment. Our services are medically managed with 24-hour healthcare supervision in a safe

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/treatment-rehab/native-american/new-jersey

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Community Hospital Helped Sustain Area that Became the Central …

(8 days ago) WebHe founded Newark’s and New Jersey’s first all-black hospital in what is now the Central Ward for treatment and care in the community, where African-Americans could intern and then serve as physicians. Until that time, blacks were not found on the staffs of any Newark hospital. Kenney was born in Albemarle County, VA, the son of a former slave.

https://knowingnewark.npl.org/community-hospital-helped-sustain-area-that-became-the-central-ward/

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New Jersey History: Native Americans - NewJerseyAlmanac.com

(4 days ago) WebThe area now making up the state of New Jersey was first inhabited by Native American tribes for more than ten thousand years prior to the exploration of the New World by Europeans. The principal Native American tribe was the Lenni Lenape, translated either as "original people" or "true men" and considered to be part of the larger Algonquin

https://www.newjerseyalmanac.com/native-americans.html

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NATIVE AMERICANS IN BERGEN COUNTY

(8 days ago) WebThus, in the historic record, the name Lenape referred to native inhabitants of a portion of the west bank of the Delaware River and was never used to encompass the entire Algonquian-speaking population of the Middle Atlantic coast. Strictly speaking, Lenape means "male." Linnilenape has been translated "Indians of the same nation."

https://www.bergencountyhistory.org/nativeamericans-in-bergen-county

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