American Indians and Alaska Natives in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Grave Burden We Stand to Bear

The United States is bearing witness as a crisis-within-a-crisis unfolds across Indian Country, where a persistently underfunded system with inadequate resources and outdated facilities set the stage for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to overwhelm Tribes. Now is the time to reimagine our way fo...

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Autores principales: Brodt, Erik, Empey, Allison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34235363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2021.0011
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spelling pubmed-82370962021-07-06 American Indians and Alaska Natives in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Grave Burden We Stand to Bear Brodt, Erik Empey, Allison Health Equity Perspective The United States is bearing witness as a crisis-within-a-crisis unfolds across Indian Country, where a persistently underfunded system with inadequate resources and outdated facilities set the stage for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to overwhelm Tribes. Now is the time to reimagine our way forward as a country beyond the pandemic. To address these issues, we recommend that (1) the federal government appropriately fund the Indian Health Service and work more closely with tribal governments, and (2) programs that recruit, train, and retain American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health professionals be expanded. We offer guidance on decisive and impactful steps that can be taken, together, today. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8237096/ /pubmed/34235363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2021.0011 Text en © Erik Brodt and Allison Empey 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC-BY] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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