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Poverty rate
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26% and rising....2.6 times higher than whites....12.4% is national average
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What results in poverty
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Personal race
Institutionalized Race Symbolic Race Lack of Education |
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Median Household income
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30,784-lowest except for hispanics. 22,000 for indians in south dakota
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Structural Barriers
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-Unkept Promises, No funds from congress to create and maintain assistance, Racism
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Average age of native american
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55
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percentage of NA w/out healthcare coverage
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29-compared to only 14 of whites
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Indian health service
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Health service for recognized tribes, coordinates health care, oversees sanitation, health management
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Eligibility for health care; along with living in contract care area
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1)Live on reservation
2) Belong to or maintain close economic and social ties with a tribe |
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Contract care area
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consists of the county or counties in which a reservation is located, as well as counties it borders
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Services contract care covers
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only services that are not able to be covered throughother programs: Medicareetc. Have to prove you were turned down
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What are native americans dying of
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Tuberculosis, Homicide, suicide, diabetes, cancer..cancer has five year survival rate-worst of all groups
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United States Commission on Civil Rights recommendation
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Educate health providers on culture diff., more health providers,increase retentin rate, modernize data collection and equipment, increase enrollment into public insurance programs, Imporve acceess
-Congress must increase funding-Promises must not be bro |
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leading cause of death
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injuries age 1-44
accounts for 75% of deaths among NA 1-19 |
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native american males age 20 and older are at risk for...more than female counterparts
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-4 x more likely to die from pedestrian related accident-2 x as likely to die from fire and burn accident-5 x more likely to drown-4 x more likely to commit suicide-2 x more likely to die from motor vehicle crash-3 x more likely to be murdered
ALCOHOL HU |
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Indian Suicide
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Nearly 3x that of the US national rate
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Suicide is not entirley a personal decision: Emilie Durkheim
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Four types: Egoistic, Anomic, fatalistic, altraistic
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Egoistic Suicide
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Too little integration in society
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Anomic Suicide
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Too little regulation- Loss of job, Divorce, loss of social control
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Fatalistic Suicide
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Too much regulation-prisoners of war
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Altruistic Suicide
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Too much integration into society- Cults
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Suicide Risk factors
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Social Impacts
-Discrimination -Poverty -Hopelessness -Lack of Social network and support |
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Housing conditions
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-overcrowding
-Lack of credit to secure ownership -Substandard Lack of plumbing, telephone service, full use of gas utility, and lack of workable kitchen facilities. Less than 50 percent of home connected to suer. |
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Unemployment rate
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46 percent-Rosebud reservation-80% unemployment
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Native Americans Employment and Training
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-Federal monies to companies who train Native Americans
-Subject to audits-once every three years -Must amke annual reports to federal government-No evidnce that hte BIA has ever actually held companies responsible -Not enough jobs on reservation, relu |
