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September 2007, Vol 97, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1541-1542
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.115006

LETTER

EXISTENCE OF ALASKA NATIVE HEALTH DISPARITIES

Anne P. Lanier, MD, MPH

The author is with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Anne P. Lanier, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 4000 Ambassador Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508 (e-mail: aplanier@anthc.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.

The recent article by Jones rightfully emphasizes the "Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities." For many health indicators, American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people have the poorest health and greatest health disparity of any population in the nation.1 Goal 2 of the national Healthy People 2010 2 plan targets the elimination of health disparities. Jones points out that for most of the leading causes of death in the AIAN population (heart disease, accidents, diabetes, alcohol, suicide, and tuberculosis), mortality rates for American Indian/Alaska Natives are 1.2- to 7.7-times higher than the general US population, although for all AIAN people combined, death rates . . . [Full Text]






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