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Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program

Native American populations are systematically marginalized in the healthcare and public health workforce. One effective approach to reduce health disparities and improve health care delivery among Indigenous populations is to train more Native American health professionals who integrate academic an...

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Autores principales: Dreifuss, Heather M., Belin, Kalvina L., Wilson, Jamie, George, Shawndeena, Waters, Amber-Rose, Kahn, Carmella B., Bauer, Mark C., Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273937
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.789994
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author Dreifuss, Heather M.
Belin, Kalvina L.
Wilson, Jamie
George, Shawndeena
Waters, Amber-Rose
Kahn, Carmella B.
Bauer, Mark C.
Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I.
author_facet Dreifuss, Heather M.
Belin, Kalvina L.
Wilson, Jamie
George, Shawndeena
Waters, Amber-Rose
Kahn, Carmella B.
Bauer, Mark C.
Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I.
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description Native American populations are systematically marginalized in the healthcare and public health workforce. One effective approach to reduce health disparities and improve health care delivery among Indigenous populations is to train more Native American health professionals who integrate academic and cultural knowledge to understand and influence health behaviors and perspectives. Diné College partnered with Northern Arizona University to develop the Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The high school component of the Navajo NARCH Partnership created the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program (ISEP), a 1-week summer training program providing exposure to health careers and mentorship in pursuing public health careers for Native American high school students. ISEP utilizes the Diné Educational Philosophy (DEP), a Navajo conceptual framework to serve as the foundation of the program. In 2020–2021, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the DEP model had to be incorporated in the Navajo NARCH high school virtual program activities. ISEP used 2018 and 2019 past program evaluation data to inform the virtual programming. Students' perception of the program was collected using an online Qualtrics evaluation questionnaire. Students stated appreciation for program staff, fellow students, peer mentors and culturally relevant learning experiences in both virtual and in-person environments. Recommendations included: expanding the length of ISEP and continuing the hands-on activities and Public Health Leadership series.
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spelling pubmed-89020682022-03-09 Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program Dreifuss, Heather M. Belin, Kalvina L. Wilson, Jamie George, Shawndeena Waters, Amber-Rose Kahn, Carmella B. Bauer, Mark C. Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I. Front Public Health Public Health Native American populations are systematically marginalized in the healthcare and public health workforce. One effective approach to reduce health disparities and improve health care delivery among Indigenous populations is to train more Native American health professionals who integrate academic and cultural knowledge to understand and influence health behaviors and perspectives. Diné College partnered with Northern Arizona University to develop the Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The high school component of the Navajo NARCH Partnership created the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program (ISEP), a 1-week summer training program providing exposure to health careers and mentorship in pursuing public health careers for Native American high school students. ISEP utilizes the Diné Educational Philosophy (DEP), a Navajo conceptual framework to serve as the foundation of the program. In 2020–2021, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the DEP model had to be incorporated in the Navajo NARCH high school virtual program activities. ISEP used 2018 and 2019 past program evaluation data to inform the virtual programming. Students' perception of the program was collected using an online Qualtrics evaluation questionnaire. Students stated appreciation for program staff, fellow students, peer mentors and culturally relevant learning experiences in both virtual and in-person environments. Recommendations included: expanding the length of ISEP and continuing the hands-on activities and Public Health Leadership series. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8902068/ /pubmed/35273937 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.789994 Text en Copyright © 2022 Dreifuss, Belin, Wilson, George, Waters, Kahn, Bauer and Teufel-Shone. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Dreifuss, Heather M.
Belin, Kalvina L.
Wilson, Jamie
George, Shawndeena
Waters, Amber-Rose
Kahn, Carmella B.
Bauer, Mark C.
Teufel-Shone, Nicolette I.
Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title_full Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title_fullStr Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title_full_unstemmed Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title_short Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program
title_sort engaging native american high school students in public health career preparation through the indigenous summer enhancement program
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273937
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.789994
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