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Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Accurate and timely information is essential for understanding and improving the health of all Americans. This is especially important for the American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) residing in urban areas who receive their health services through a network of urban Indian health organizations (UIHOs). This community driven health care network is successful at addressing many of the health needs because it tailors health care delivery to the unique needs of the urban Indian population. As the nation engages in fervent debate about the future of health care, the need for data to inform the process for organizations that serve urban AI/AN is needed. But unlike the rest of the American health care system, the diversity across the urban Indian health landscape demands a thorough assessment and defined strategy to move toward Health Information Technology (HIT) that will meet the requirements outlined by health care reform. HIT is integral in quality improvement. Quality can be defined as delivering the right care, at the right time to meet the patient's needs. Effective and timely utilization of a patient's information combined with knowledge of the best treatment information available will be critical in improving quality of care to patients. In addition, HIT promises to provide significant improvements in: preventive care, chronic disease management, care coordination, non-visit-based care, or "e-care", knowledge-based medication management, to name a few. Improvement in these areas could make serious inroads in eliminating the health disparities for urban AI/AN. A major barrier to widespread implementation of these HIT models is the provider payment system. The current U.S. health care payment system pays predominantly for the volume of services rendered, such as office visits and procedures, and not for the quality of health care outcomes. And it's a payment system that effectively punishes providers for achieving efficiencies such as the elimination of avoidable readmissions and unnecessary in-person office visits. If the average medical practice today were to reduce its volume of reimbursed office visits in order to spend more time on unreimbursed care coordination, chronic care management, non-visit-based care, and medication management in order to improve patient health, care quality, and care efficiency, then the practice would not survive. HIT can provide valuable inroads to quality improvement related to patient care, but it also lends itself to a critical role in payment reform. HIT implemented specifically as an accelerator of health care delivery innovation and payment reform could transform U.S. health care as we know it.
Author: Megan A. Cahn
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Category : Alaska Natives
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have more negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. Little is known, however, about the factors that lead to sexual and reproductive health disparities for AIANs, including the role of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). Logistic regression analyses were performed on data from the 2002 and 2006- 2010 National Survey of Family Growth to 1) provide baseline data on SRHS use prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act for a nationally representative sample of AIAN women and men, 2) identify factors associated with SRHS use among AIANs, and 3) assess the impact of the Great Recession on AIAN SRHS use. AIAN women in urban areas were less likely to receive SRHS and birth control services than non-Hispanic whites. Additionally, AIAN women living in the South and with incomes above 133% of the federal poverty level were less likely than non-Hispanic white women to use birth control services. Conversely, AIAN men were equally likely as non-Hispanic whites to use birth control services. AIAN women and men were as likely or more likely to use STI/HIV services than their non- Hispanic white counterparts. Additionally, AIANs use of SRHS did not change as a result of the Recession. However, disparities in birth control service use between AIANs and NHWs persisted during the Recession.
Author: Jennie R. Joe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This book serves as a much-needed source of information on the social and health issues that impact the health of Native American women in the United States, accompanied by invaluable historical, cultural, and other contextual data about this sociocultural group. Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing or misrepresented in other works about Native American women. Comprising contributions from mostly Native American women scholars, the work presents key background information on native women's health, health care delivery systems, and sociocultural history, and its chapters address the changing role of native women in Alaska and other parts of Indian country. Each author taps her specific area of expertise and knowledge to spotlight specific native women's health problems, such as nutrition, aging, domestic violence, diabetes, and substance abuse.
Author: Committee on Population
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309553180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population--their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.
Author: Owanah Anderson
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Category : Aleut women
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Author: Anna C. Mastroianni
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Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Owanah P. Anderson
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Category : Indian women
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF 631 OF NATIVE AMERICAN AND ALASKAN WOMEN.
Author: Barbara Gurr
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813575427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women’s reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota—where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)—the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans—shedding much-needed light on Native American women’s efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access to care after sexual assault. Reproductive Justice goes beyond this local story to look more broadly at how race, gender, sex, sexuality, class, and nation inform the ways in which the government understands reproductive healthcare and organizes the delivery of this care. It reveals why the basic experience of reproductive healthcare for most Americans is so different—and better—than for Native American women in general, and women in reservation communities particularly. Finally, Gurr outlines the strengths that these communities can bring to the creation of their own reproductive justice, and considers the role of IHS in fostering these strengths as it moves forward in partnership with Native nations. Reproductive Justice offers a respectful and informed analysis of the stories Native American women have to tell about their bodies, their lives, and their communities.
Author: Everett R. Rhoades
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877776
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 769
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Disease processes among American Indians and Alaska Natives often have distinct manifestations that need to be considered by clinicians and health policy makers involved with these populations. Equally important, all aspects of Indian life—including health—are governed by the special relationship between Indian tribes and the U.S. federal government. For American Indian Health, Everett R. Rhoades has gathered a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners to present a comprehensive assessment of the health of American Indian peoples today and the delivery of health services to them.
Author: Barbara Gurr
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813564700
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women’s reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota—where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)—the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans—shedding much-needed light on Native American women’s efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access to care after sexual assault. Reproductive Justice goes beyond this local story to look more broadly at how race, gender, sex, sexuality, class, and nation inform the ways in which the government understands reproductive healthcare and organizes the delivery of this care. It reveals why the basic experience of reproductive healthcare for most Americans is so different—and better—than for Native American women in general, and women in reservation communities particularly. Finally, Gurr outlines the strengths that these communities can bring to the creation of their own reproductive justice, and considers the role of IHS in fostering these strengths as it moves forward in partnership with Native nations. Reproductive Justice offers a respectful and informed analysis of the stories Native American women have to tell about their bodies, their lives, and their communities.
