3.6: American Indians and Alaska Natives

Increase access to health services for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN)

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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective - Provide support for health professionals who serve in Indian health locations. - Increase core capacity of tribes and tribal organizations to effectively assess needs, and implement and evaluate programs to eliminate health disparities. - Support the integration of traditional healing practices into conventional health care. - Increase the collection of payments to IHS, tribal, and urban Indian providers from thirdparty health insurance. - Refine and expand the information technology infrastructure within the Indian health system to improve health status monitoring, health care quality and efficiency, and financial management. - Allocate resources to services that address health conditions that disproportionately affect American Indian and Native Alaskan populations in urban and rural settings. - Enhance and expand collaborative efforts between the Indian Health Service and other HHS agencies directed towards reducing the disparities in health status between American Indian and Alaska Native people and the U.S. general population. - Increase the capacity of tribal epidemiology programs to assure that essential public health services are available in local, tribal, and urban settings.

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