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Navajo Nation Health Foundations was run in Ganado solely by Navajo people. In expressing identity in the medical community, the Navajo Nation took advantage of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act to create the Navajo Health Systems Agency in 1975, being the only American Indian group to do so during that time. [1]
The Navajo Uranium Assessment and Kidney Health Project (NUAKHP) was a congressionally mandated study conducted by researchers from the University of New Mexico and Crownpoint IHS Hospital on kidney functions of Navajo Native Americans who lived and worked near decommissioned uranium mines.
In addition to the Indian Health Services, researchers have data suggesting that the Affordable Care Act supplements Native American healthcare. With the two services, tribes have greater flexibility in health care availability. Tribes have direct access to IHS funds, which can be administered via contracts and other arrangements made with ...
Down desert roads, spread out across mesas and mountains, the Navajo Nation is battling a COVID-19 outbreak unlike anywhere else in the U.S. Covering more than 27,000 miles across Arizona, New ...
Mark Ruffalo is encouraging Native American communities make their voices heard in the polls, one step at a time.. The 56-year-old actor traveled to the Navajo Nation on Saturday, Oct. 12, to ...
Navajo cultural advisor George R. Joe explains the painful history, and present-day controversies, that shaped his work on AMC crime drama 'Dark Winds.' Stereotypes. Taboos.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement and treatment of physical ...
A 2009 study finds that there is a strong prevalence of cross-cultural miscommunication, mistrust, and lack of satisfaction among Native American patients when it comes to healthcare. [23] A connection between mistrust from a community and health disparities is established in a 2014 study on "Cultural Identity and Patient Trust Among Older ...