Native American Health Resources

In support of SUNY Upstate's celebration of Native American Month, the Health Sciences Library has put together a Native American health resources page. Here you will find information on health issues vital to the Native American community as well as sources that provide a starting point for further investigation.

News from Medical News Today

"American Indians Most Likely To Feel Health Care Discrimination"

"American Indian Leaders Meet, Devise Plan To Prevent Federal Health Funding Cut"

"Mayo Clinic, Indian Health Service Form Education, Research And Clinical Practice Collaboration"

"Racial And Gender Disparities In Development Of Hypertension In American Indians"

"American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians"

Books

Primary care of Native American Patients : Diagnosis, Therapy, and Epidemiology. By James M. Galloway. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
WA 305 P952 1999
Improving American Indian Health Care : the Western Cherokee Experience. Edited by Gary W. Shannon and Rashid L. Bashshur. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
W 84 AA1 S7993i 2001
The Dancing Healers : a Doctor’s Journey of Healing with Native Americans. Carl A. Hammerschlag. HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.
Alumni WB 880 H224d 1989
Health of Native People of North America : a Bibliography and Guide to Resources, Sharon A. Gray. Scarecrow Press, 1996.
Ref ZWA 300 G782h 1996

Online Video

The Heart, the Drum - http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/thtd.ram

Web Sites

American Indian Health - http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine

Native American Health - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine

Maternal Child Health, American Indian and Alaska Native - http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/sitemap.cfm
Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services

ACF Administration for Native Americans - http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ana/
Federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services

Indian Health Service - http://www.ihs.gov/

Division of Diabetes, Indian Health Service - http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes/index.asp

Native American Health and Family Resources - http://www.firstgov.gov/Government/Tribal/family.shtml

National Indian Health Board - http://www.nihb.org/

Native American Health Center - http://www.nativehealth.org/

Databases

Native Health Databases - http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/
Search for citations and abstracts on both the history and current literature on the health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
Native American Ethnobotany - http://herb.umd.umich.edu/

History

NLM Exhibit:
If You Only Knew the Conditions - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_01.html

Health Disparities With Native Americans

"Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System." U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/nahealth/nabroken.pdf
"Barriers to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native American Access to HHS Programs."
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/06/barriers2access/report.pdf

Traditions in Native American Health

The Practices of Curanderismo
"Native American Medicine" From the Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0005/ai_2603000543

Professional Society

Association of American Indian Physicians - http://www.aaip.org/
Native American Cancer Research "…dedicated to helping improve the lives of Native American cancer patients and survivors."
http://natamcancer.org/
Center for American Indian Health – Service and Research Projects and Training Opportunities.
http://www.jhsph.edu/caih