Indian health service innovations have helped reduce health disparities affecting American Indian and Alaska Native people

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1965-1973

  Sequist, Thomas D ^a   Cullen, Theresa ^b   Acton, Kelly J ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c Department of Health and Human Services Region IX ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES CONTROL; FUNDING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CULTURE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 84856017562     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0630     Document Type: Article

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