Native American health resource directory.

The purpose of this resource directory is to increase awareness of national and regional programs for improving the health of Native Americans. There are many national organizations and agencies such as the American Cancer Society and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill that provide important services for all people. This directory includes only those organizations that primarily serve Native Americans. Agencies and organizations that provide health-related services at the state or local level are not included. Individual tribes, for example, have their own programs for Head Start and elderly services. The information was collected in 1994; thus, organizations may have changed their telephone numbers, addresses, and personnel. Section I contains a listing of health resources on: aging, AIDS, alcoholism, diabetes, Environment, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Women's Health and more. Section II contains Indian Health Service informational fact sheet, organizational chart, and directory. Section III contains publication references. Accession # 9702155 Entry Date: 991105 Author(s): Kauffman J. Title: Tribal governments as rural health providers Institution Americans for Indian Opportunity, Inc., Washington, D.C. 20007. Source: Indian Health Service, Staff Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Research, Rockville, MD 20857 (RT-02). Date: 1990 Document Type: Roundtable Report Tribe/Alaska Native American Indian, Alaskan Native Geographic Region United States U.S. State USA Key Words Community Health Services; Data Collection; Delivery of Health Care/lj [Legislation and Jurisprudence]; Health Policy; Health Services Administration; Health Services, Indigenous; Information Management; Rural Health Services; Rural Population Abstract This report consists of the findings of the Rural Indian Health Roundtable (RT) held on September 27-28, 1990, in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the roundtable was to bring together experts in the fields of health care, community development, tribal governance, academia, and policy to chart pathways for enabling tribal governments to become providers of rural health services. The roundtable participants addressed the level of ownership at the community level including input and control in the governance of the programs. The report contains a section that lists the chronology of mandates that the Indian Health Service (IHS) acts under in providing health care for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population. The mandates include the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 and its 1988 amendments intended to reinstate local control and responsibility to AI/AN populations. The meeting topics ranged from inadequate health care for rural communities, the depletion of resources, lack of funding, escalating costs of services, and recommendations. The report describes how good health care has been developed through activism and persistence at the community level. Recommendations include re-examining programs and services to make them more responsive to the needs and priorities of AI/AN communities. Furthermore, Congress, the IHS, and tribes should support the process of consensus building in tribal communities and make other traditional forms of decision-making a contemporary part of the IHS and tribal government relations, including blending governance with community development.