scholarly journals Prevalence of Diabetic Eye Diseases in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) as Identified by the Indian Health Service’s National Teleophthalmology Program Using Ultrawide Field Imaging (UWFI)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jo Fonda ◽  
Sven-Erik Bursell ◽  
Drew G. Lewis ◽  
Dawn Clary ◽  
Dara Shahon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Eye Diseases ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
Field Imaging ◽  
Ultrawide Field Imaging

American Indians fitting into Medical School

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Apanakhi Buckley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Native Women ◽  
Indian Health

This paper describes a qualitative study of how indigenous people experience medical school in the United States. Nine American Indians and Alaska Natives participated in the study: five women and four men. They came from eight different tribes, but they have asked me to protect their confidentiality, so I will not identify their tribes. Their ages ranged from 27 to 39. Five of them had children. Two of them were unmarried.In the United States, the need for indigenous physicians is great. Twice as many American Indians die from homicide and suicide as non-Indians in the United States (Wallace, Kirk, Houston, Amnest, and Emrich, 1993); three times as many die from accidents and more than four times as many die from alcoholism (Indian Health Service, 1996). Diabetes is rampant among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Women are the hardest hit (Gilliland, Gilliland, and Carter; 1997). More than five times as many American Indian and Alaska Native women die from diabetes than non-Latina white women.

scholarly journals Racial Misclassification of American Indians and Alaska Natives by Indian Health Service Contract Health Service Delivery Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (S3) ◽  
pp. S295-S302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Jim ◽  
Elizabeth Arias ◽  
Dean S. Seneca ◽  
Megan J. Hoopes ◽  
Cheyenne C. Jim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Service Contract ◽  
Indian Health

Special Section: Training Practicing Anthropologists

1980 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spero Manson ◽  
Bea Medicine ◽  
Walter Funmaker
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
Mental Health Programs ◽  
Service Agencies

No more than 60 American Indians and Alaska Natives currently hold doctoral degrees in the fields of anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and sociology. Only a few of these persons actually work in positions where they can directly impact American Indian and Alaska Native mental health programs. Moreover, lacking graduate level trained Indian professionals, many of these programs—as within the Indian Health Service, for example—have become almost solely dependent upon an Indian paraprofessional workforce. Communities and service agencies alike, however, prefer more trained Indian and Native psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, medical sociologists, and medical anthropologists.

Indian Health Service Care System and Cancer Stage in American Indians and Alaska Natives

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman ◽  
Scott V. Adams ◽  
Aasthaa Bansal ◽  
Jean A. McDougall ◽  
Stacey A. Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Cancer Stage ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
Care System
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