Monday, May 6, 2013
Health ownership in American Indigenous communities
Although the Indian Health Service (IHS) has adequately stifled acute
infectious diseases that once devastated American Indian and Alaska Native
(AIAN) communities, this system of health provision has become obsolete in the
face of chronically debilitating illnesses. Presently, AIAN communities suffer
disproportionally from chronic diseases that demand adequate, long-term health
maintenance such as hepatitis, renal failure, and diabetes to name a few. A
number of research endeavors have sought to define this problem in the
literature, but few have proposed adequate mechanisms to alleviate the
disparity. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of both the
Indian Health Service (IHS) and the relative few tribal healthcare systems (PL
93-638) respectively in their sociopolitical contexts, to determine their
utility among a financially lame IHS. Click here
to read the full paper.
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