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The hidden health inequalities that Indigenous peoples face

WEBGordon Belcourt, CC BY-ND. Health inequality. The IHS is the primary health care provider for most American Indians. It is responsible for providing health …

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In Alaska, a health care model for the nation

WEBThe data backs up the Nuka model. There has been a 40 percent reduction in emergency room, urgent care. A 50 percent decrease in specialty care visits; a 20 …

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Indigenous leaders: Planetary health and Indigenous health are

WEBIndigenous peoples around the globe agree that their health and the health of the planet are interdependent and in jeopardy. On day two of the United Nations …

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In Wyoming, the future of Native health depends on kids

WEBIndian Health Service clinical psychologist Dr. Roland Hart understands the importance of a strong start as well as anyone. In his 23 years of service to the Wind River Indian Reservation, Hart

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Climate change is changing public health

WEBThe epidemiologists are collaborating with newly created, climate-focused local public health positions across the state. The climate health team’s total budget — …

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‘The clinic, it’s going to be the heart of it all’

WEBThe Little Shell Tribal Health Clinic is slated to open in this city of about 60,000 people on Jan. 31, roughly two years after the tribal nation achieved its long …

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When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

WEBEd Williams/KUNM. Since the ACA, Santo Domingo became one of many tribes to use an old sovereignty law that lets them opt out of IHS care and instead get a …

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‘It’s hurting in the short term. It’s hurting now.’

WEBGBV: The hospital, which is located on Acoma lands, is the Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Hospital. It’s an Indian Health Services facility, which was established in the 1970s and designed to service

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Rural New Mexico hospitals pool resources to survive

WEBIn its most recent round of funding two years ago, the agency awarded a total of $11.6 million to 39 networks nationwide, from Alaska to Maine. The New Mexico …

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Rural communities look at new ways to fortify mental …

WEBSome of the effects on the state’s mental health system were immediate: Mental health centers in Livingston, Libby and elsewhere closed or contracted, leaving many, especially in rural Montana

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Why the U.S. is terrible at collecting Indigenous data

WEBAbigail Echo-Hawk, the chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indigenous Health Institute. “The main nuance of …

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Paiute Tribe elders navigate a faltering health care system

WEBDennis and Betty, who have been married for 48 years, are just two of the more than 90 elders in the Paiute Tribe who struggle to make ends meet, obtain …

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A majority of Montana counties face primary care shortages

WEBMontana is ailing from a chronic shortage of doctors and mental health providers. In such a rural state, the lack of physicians means patients must often drive …

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Montanans must rely on each other in crisis

WEBThe news sent public health staff and health care providers in Libby scrambling. Besides employing 13 people and serving about 200 clients, Western …

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The New Mexican clinic that makes rural healthcare work

WEBThe non-profit group was founded by a coalition of community leaders, including health policy expert Charlie Alfero, in 1995 to fill the gap left by the closing of …

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The lifelong consequences of childhood trauma

WEBThe National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that communities, some of which are in Montana, using the Garret Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention …

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All health care is socialism

WEBPrivate insurance, whether from our employers or the Obamacare exchanges, is a special equation involving socialism plus the cost of doing business, plus a fee we …

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Latina community health workers combat COVID-19 in the West

WEBThat’s why the nonprofit medical clinic Community Health Partners brought her on when it launched a promotoras de salud program in 2015. Promotoras — …

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Montana is losing essential mental health services

WEBThe state spent $249 million on state mental health services during the 2014-15 fiscal year, according to data compiled by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental …

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A new mental health hotline for farmers and ranchers

WEBThe AgriStress hotline is available for agricultural producers in Wyoming, Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Virginia at 833-897-2474. Kylie Mohr is an editorial …

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You know CPR — what about mental health first aid

WEBAccording to the DPHHS’ 2016 Suicide Mortality Review Team Report, only 13 percent of people who died from suicide in Montana since 2013 — 74 out of 555 — …

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When public health becomes the public enemy

WEBOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses Extremism. When public health becomes the public enemy. Far-right extremists are robbing the West of the officials who …

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