Access To Health Care For American Indians And Alaska Natives

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309055482
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Numbers, Changing Needs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native populationâ€"their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.

Author : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359520383
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tip 61 - Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indians and Alaska Natives have consistently experienced disparities in access to healthcare services, funding, and resources; quality and quantity of services; treatment outcomes; and health education and prevention services. Availability, accessibility, and acceptability of behavioral health services are major barriers to recovery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Common factors that infuence engagement and participation in services include availability of transportation and child care, treatment infrastructure, level of social support, perceived provider effectiveness, cultural responsiveness of services, treatment settings, geographic locations, and tribal affliations.

Author : Juliet King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Access to Health Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives written by Juliet King and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study set out to explore two research questions - does access to health care differ for American Indians and Alaska Natives as compared to other economically disadvantaged groups, and if so, in what ways does it differ. In addressing these questions, the relationship between use of health services (as a measure of access to health care), and health status, individual characteristics, financial and structural resources was explored for a sample of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Blacks, Hispanics and rural residents- Based on the results, it is possible to conclude that the ability of American Indians and Alaska Natives to obtain health services does differ, but that it does so in ways that were not originally hypothesized"--Leaf 191.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successful Strategies for Increasing Direct Health Care Quality, Accessibility, and Economy for American Indians and Alaska Natives written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Indian Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen L. Schensul
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761991441
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Ethnographic Methods written by Stephen L. Schensul and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Ethnographic Methods akes a mixed methods approach to introducing the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use.

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468003994
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Health Service written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to health care services for American Indians and Alaska Natives has been a long standing concern.1 The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is charged with providing health care to the approximately 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members or descendants of federally recognized tribes.2 These services are provided at federally or tribally operated health care facilities,3 which receive IHS funding and are located in 12 geographic regions overseen by IHS area offices.4 These IHS-funded facilities vary in the services that they provide. For example, some facilities offer comprehensive hospital services, while others offer only primary care services. When services are not available at these facilities, the agency's contract health services (CHS) program may pay for services from external health care providers, including hospital- and office-based providers. The CHS program is administered at the local level by individual CHS programs generally affiliated with IHS-funded facilities in each area. These individual CHS programs may be federally or tribally operated. These federal and tribal CHS programs determine whether or not to pay for the referral of a patient to an external provider or pay an external provider for a service already provided. IHS requires that patients meet certain eligibility and administrative requirements to have the services paid by the CHS program. In addition, the CHS program, which is funded through the annual appropriations process, must operate within the limits of its appropriations. Therefore, committees associated with each CHS program meet at least weekly to review cases and approve payment based on the relative medical need of each case. When the requirements have not been met or funds are not available, CHS programs defer or deny requests to pay for services. Services for which patients otherwise meet necessary requirements, but for which CHS program funds are not available for payment, are known as unfunded services. Limits on available resources have affected the specific types of services available to American Indians and Alaska Natives through the CHS program. For example, in a 2005 report examining 13 IHS-funded health care facilities, we reported that primary care services were generally offered at the facilities, but certain specialty and other services were not always directly available to American Indians and Alaska Natives.5 These facilities also generally lacked funds to pay for all of these services through their CHS programs. We also noted that, in some cases, gaps in services resulted in diagnosis or treatment delays that exacerbated the severity of a patient's condition and required more intensive treatment.

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542171
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strong Hearts and Healing Hands written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. This corps of white women were dedicated to improving Indian health. In 1928, the first field nurses arrived in the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California. These nurses visited homes and schools, providing public health and sanitation information regarding disease causation and prevention. Over time, field nurses and Native people formed a positive working relationship that resulted in the decline of mortality from infectious diseases. Many Native Americans accepted and used Western medicine to fight pathogens, while also continuing Indigenous medicine ways. Nurses helped control tuberculosis, measles, influenza, pneumonia, and a host of gastrointestinal sicknesses. In partnership with the community, nurses quarantined people with contagious diseases, tested for infections, and tracked patients and contacts. Indians turned to nurses and learned about disease prevention. With strong hearts, Indians eagerly participated in the tuberculosis campaign of 1939–40 to x-ray tribal members living on twenty-nine reservations. Through their cooperative efforts, Indians and health-care providers decreased deaths, cases, and misery among the tribes of Southern California.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309175291
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Numbers, Changing Needs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-09-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native populationâ€"their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.

Author : Everett R. Rhoades
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801877776
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Health written by Everett R. Rhoades and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease processes among American Indians and Alaska Natives often have distinct manifestations that need to be considered by clinicians and health policy makers involved with these populations. Equally important, all aspects of Indian life—including health—are governed by the special relationship between Indian tribes and the U.S. federal government. For American Indian Health, Everett R. Rhoades has gathered a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners to present a comprehensive assessment of the health of American Indian peoples today and the delivery of health services to them.