The Changing Landscape of Health Care Provision to American Indian Nations

Jan. 1, 2015
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The Changing Landscape of Health Care Provision to American Indian Nations

Health service provision has been an aspect of indigenous-United States relationships for over two hundred years, yet America's First Peoples continue to suffer from poor health outcomes when compared with other racial or ethnic groups in the United States. An important change over recent decades is that more and more tribes are managing their own health care services—a realignment of administration and authority that has the potential to substantially improve American Indian and Alaska Native health in years to come.

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Rainie, Stephanie, Miriam Jorgensen, Stephen Cornell, and Jaime Arsenault. 2015. "The Changing Landscape of Health Care Provision to American Indian Nations." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 39 (1):1-24. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.39.1.j1u030g668113403.

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Miriam Jorgensen

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