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Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop
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... At a workshop held in 2012 by the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, presenters described many of these strengths, including community traditions and beliefs, social support networks, close-knit families, and individual resilience (IOM, 2013)
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... The overall goal of the roundtable is to convene leaders from academia, health care, government, industry, professional organizations, communities, and other sectors to discuss issues related to (1) the visibility of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care as a national problem, (2)
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... The state has 24 tribal communities, ranging from the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in the south-central part of the state to the pueblos in the state's north-central region to the Navajo Indian Reservation in the northwest corner of the state. Of its 33 counties, 17 are frontier counties, meaning that they have less than six people per square mile and are more than 60 miles away from the near est health care facility.
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... Chapter 4 looks specifically at health issues prevalent in Native American youth, including substance abuse and mental health problems. Chapter 5 addresses the intersection between educational disparities and health disparities and features the role of targeted educational interventions in Native American youth to reduce health disparities and educational disparities in Native Americans in particular.
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  • workshop summary
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