Achieving Health Equity for Indian Country

Authors

Jamie Ishcomer, National Indian Health BoardFollow

Keywords

Health Equity; Indian Country; Native Americans

Disciplines

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Community College Leadership | Higher Education | Immune System Diseases | Medicine and Health Sciences | Public Health | Translational Medical Research | Virus Diseases

Abstract

The essence of health equity is giving resources where they are needed most. American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) continue to have the worst health outcomes, live in some of the most desperate of conditions, and lack access to even basic amenities that many other Americans could not survive without. Although Tribes have been plagued with social, economic and political injustice for centuries, there is an opportunity to put a stop to the systematic oppression and build up the first peoples of this country. A partnership between the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) and the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (HHS OMH) has taken a proactive and strategic approach to build the public health capacity of Tribal health departments through information gathering and dissemination, capacity building and awareness raising.

Recommended Citation

Ishcomer, Jamie (2016) "Achieving Health Equity for Indian Country," Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 9: Iss. 6, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol9/iss6/6