Tribal Benefits Counseling Program: Expanding Health Care Opportunities for Tribal Members

Health epidemics on tribal lands.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for Native Americans. For several decades, the American population has fallen victim to poor nutritional habits, where healthy, natural foods have been replaced with unwholesome foods prepared with too much sugar, saturated fat and artificial additives. American Indian and Alaska Native populations have fared no better. Being forced onto rese...

The Prevention of Suicide in Alaska's Tribal Health Care Setting

Health Status of Tribal Women in India

The paper discusses the health status of the tribal women in relation to sex ratio, age at marriage, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, nutritional status, maternal and child health care practices, sexually transmitted diseases, genetic disorders, etc. the health status of tribal women is found to be lower than that of the Indian women in general on most of these aspects. Gaps in knowledge ...

Food Security and Health Status among Tribal and Non-tribal Populations of Amravati District, Maharashtra

Every year, IIPS undertakes many research studies on a number of themes related to population and health at the state and national levels using its own resources. The ‘Research Brief Series’ is a new initiative by the institute to provide an opportunity to the institute’s faculty, Ph.D. students and visiting fellows to quickly disseminate the important finding of their research studies before t...

Jaundice : Tribal Medicine

Till this date, Modern Medicine has not offered any satisfactory remedy for Jaundice. In contrast, Traditional Medicine and Tribal practices have been rescuing the patients since time immemorial. Presented in this article are some of such remedies rediscovered by the authors in the Dandakaranya area during the Ethno - Botanical Surveys.