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

Hagan, Kyla; Hill, Ryan; Wexler, Lisa

doi:10.1037/e645852007-001

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“…32 Suicide prevention activities within the IHS focus on more-effective screening by primary care providers, outpatient and hospital-based treatment programs, and promoting safe storage of firearms kept in the home. 33,34 Despite these successes, disparities persist, and the IHS has risen to meet these challenges through several innovative programs.…”

Section: Innovation Within the Indian Health Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Indian Health Service Innovations Have Helped Reduce Health Disparities Affecting American Indian And Alaska Native People

Sequist

Cullen²,

Acton³

2011

Health Affairs

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The Indian Health Service (IHS), a federal health system, cares for 2 million of the country's 5.2 million American Indian and Alaska Native people. This system has increasingly focused on innovative uses of health information technology and telemedicine, as well as comprehensive, locally tailored prevention and disease management programs, to promote health equity in a population facing multiple health disparities. Important recent achievements include a reduction in the life-expectancy gap between American Indian and Alaska Native people and whites (from eight years to five years) and improved measures of diabetes control (including 20 percent and 10 percent reductions in the levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and hemoglobin A1c, respectively). However, disparities persist between American Indian and Alaska Native people and the overall US population. Continued innovation and increased funding are required to further improve health and achieve equity.

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Section: Innovation Within the Indian Health Servicementioning

confidence: 99%