Knowing tribal health

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• Corporate Authors:
  Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
• Description:
  Most states and jurisdictions have numerous ethnic minorities and racial minorities. Notably, American Indian/Alaska Natives are also political minorities that have a specific legal status. The federal government recognizes 566 tribes, ranging from large nations in the contiguous states to remote villages located in rural Alaska. All together, there are 5.2 million American Indian/Alaska Natives living in this country.2 In the 2011 ASTHO profile of state and territorial health agencies, 36 out of 51 states (70%) reported that they were working with American Indian/Alaska Native populations. Of those states, 35 had a primary contact person that works on minority health, health disparities, and health equity issues and 32 had an organizational unit that has primary responsibility on all minority health issues.
• Subjects:
  Alaska Natives Health Services, Indigenous Indians, North American Public Health
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT NUMBER 5U58DP001319-04
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cecd582609846dc479de09f29959178667448b0f9147e7e30d6a095159825253
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/85898/cdc_85898_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 397.41 KB ]