Health ownership in American indigenous communities.

CONCLUSION: Reinstating notions of ownership in multiple paradigms, along with novel approaches to empowerment is requisite to creating viable solutions to the unique health circumstances in Native America. This article demonstrates the importance and need of more qualitative data to better characterize how PL 93-638 healthcare delivery is actually experienced by AIAN patients. PMID: 23614503 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23614503?dopt=Abstract

Source: Rural Remote Health - July 3, 2013 Category: Rural Health Authors: Nelson M Tags: Rural Remote Health Source Type: research