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May 2005, Vol 95, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 759-761
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063230

EDITORIAL

Understanding and Addressing the Health Care Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives

Marsha Lillie-Blanton, DrPH and Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH

Marsha Lillie-Blanton is with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC. Yvette Roubideaux is with the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Marsha Lillie-Blanton, DrPH, Kaiser Family Foundation, 1330 G St NW, Washington, DC 20005 (e-mail: mlillie-blanton@kff.org)

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
This month, the Journal partners with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to feature articles that resulted from a call for papers on the health policy challenges affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives. The intent was to bring greater visibility to an important but often overlooked public policy issue—how to more effectively address the health care needs of this nation’s first citizens. This collection of articles represents the first theme issue of the Journal devoted to American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health policy and provides an opportunity to examine the extent to which health challenges are being addressed in . . . [Full Text]


   WHY A FOCUS ON AIAN HEALTH POLICY CHALLENGES?
 

   UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES
 

   CONCLUSION
 



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