To date the US has experienced greatest number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in world, but impact been even greater for American Indians Alaska Natives (AIAN). Despite numerous disadvantages related poor socioeconomic status preexisting health conditions, Tribal sovereignty, community strength resiliency have important factors limiting burden disease on Indigenous Americans. AIAN Tribes r...


 Purpose: Recent studies on programs designed to support Indigenous faculty are lacking. Expanding numbers of successful health could help improve delivery culturally appropriate/responsive care for people. Methods: We enrolled nine American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) participants in 2017 and 53 2018 an Faculty Forum (IFF). provided instruction academic advancement, addressed unique cult...

This technical memo examines health insurance coverage of AIANs in Los Angeles. Previous studies have found that AIANs are significantly less likely to have access, particularly to private insurance (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 2000; American Indians and Alaska Natives: Health Coverage and Access to Care, 2004; Urban Indian Health Institute, 2012). The gap is particularly n...

OBJECTIVE This report compares national estimates for selected health status indicators, health behaviors, health care utilization, health conditions, immunizations, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing status among selected non-Hispanic Asian adult subgroups. Comparison estimates for the non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), and...

Introduction: The aims of this study were to evaluate whether menthol smoking and race/ethnicity are associated with nicotine dependence in daily smokers. Methods: The study used two subsamples of U.S. daily smokers who responded to the 2010-2011 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey. The larger subsample consisted of 18,849 non-Hispanic White (NHW), non-Hispanic Black (NHB), ...

American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities experience alarming health disparities, including high rates of substance use disorders (SUDs). Psychological services for AIANs, including SUDs treatment, are primarily funded by the federal Indian Health Service and typically administered by tribal governments. Tribal administration of SUDs treatment programs has routinely involved either i...

BACKGROUND Although there is strong scientific, policy, and community support for community-engaged research (CEnR)-including community-based participatory research (CBPR)-the science of CEnR is still developing. OBJECTIVE To describe structural differences in federally funded CEnR projects by type of research (i.e., descriptive, intervention, or dissemination/policy change) and race/ethnicit...

OBJECTIVES In 2003, California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Ohio (for births occurring in December only), Utah, and Washington provided to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) multiple as well as single racial entries that mothers and fathers had reported on birth certificates in accordance with the revised race and ethnicity standards issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) i...

cardiovascular disease (cvd) is the driving force behind the discrepancy in life expectancy between indigenous and nonindigenous groups in many countries. preceding cvd many indigenous groups exhibit a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors, including overweight-obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. in turn, modifiable lifestyle risk factors contribute to the developmen...

Objective: To address the continuing gap in data and research on health socioeconomic inequities characterizing Native Americans United States, this study examines major social inequality trends for American Indian Alaska (AIAN) populations covering several broad areas, including infant child health, life expectancy leading causes of death, physical mental chronic disease prevalence, disability...