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September 2007, Vol 97, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1542-1543
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.116137

LETTER

JONES RESPONDS

David S. Jones, MD, PhD

The author is with the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, and the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to David S. Jones, 77 Massachusetts Ave, E51-290, Cambridge, MA 02139 (e-mail: dsjones@mit.edu).

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

Of the many daunting challenges faced by the Indian Health Service (IHS) in 1955, one of the most immediate was the lack of systematic health data. Over the last six decades, the IHS has worked consistently to overcome this deficit, from its first field health surveys in 1956 to its extensive data collection today.1,2 Population-wide data remain invaluable to the IHS, revealing the persistence of wide disparities between American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) and the general population even as overall health conditions improved among all groups in the United States. However, as Lanier reminds us, conglomerated data obscure significant . . . [Full Text]






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