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Healthy Indian County Initiative Promising Prevention Practices Resource Guide: Promoting Innovative Tribal Prevention Programs

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Publication Year: 2009
Last Updated: 2021-07-28 13:43:04
Journal: National Indian Health Board
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The NIHB has released the Healthy Indian Country Initiative (HICI) Promising Prevention Practices Resource Guide to highlight promising prevention programs within Indian Country. This guide begins the process of identifying, developing, and looking at Tribal community promising prevention practices with the intent to allow other communities to replicate these practices.

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The NIHB has released the Healthy Indian Country Initiative (HICI) Promising Prevention Practices Resource Guide to highlight promising prevention programs within Indian Country. This guide begins the process of identifying, developing, and looking at Tribal community promising prevention practices with the intent to allow other communities to replicate these practices.

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Methamphetamine Overdose Deaths in the US by Sex and Race and Ethnicity

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Authors: Beth Han, MD, PhD, MPH, Jessica Cotto, MPH, Kathleen Etz, PhD
Publication Year: 2021
Last Updated: 2021-07-14 10:46:13
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
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This article details the US age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine. Although addiction outcomes can be improved with sex-specific and culturally tailored prevention and treatment interventions, the extent to which fatalities differ as functions of sex and race and ethnicity has not been analyzed, to our knowledge.

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This article details the US age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine. Although addiction outcomes can be improved with sex-specific and culturally tailored prevention and treatment interventions, the extent to which fatalities differ as functions of sex and race and ethnicity has not been analyzed, to our knowledge.

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Urban American Indian Adult Participation and Outcomes in Culturally Adapted and Mainstream Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings

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Authors: J. Scott Tonigan, Kamilla Venner, Katherine A. Hirchak
Publication Year: 2019
Last Updated: 2021-07-14 10:42:02
Journal: Health and Human Services
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This journal discusses American Indian (AI) adults participation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). This study sought out to examine the engagement in AA by urban Southwest AI adult problem drinkers. The study compared three and six-month drinking outcomes of urban S-AI adults by type of meeting attended. They examined the association between frequency of AA attendance and differences between types of meetings attended regressed on the outcomes of proportion abstinent days and drinks per drinking day. Results showed that AA attendance is the model approach and assists urban S-AI adults in reducing their drinking.

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This journal discusses American Indian (AI) adults participation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). This study sought out to examine the engagement in AA by urban Southwest AI adult problem drinkers. The study compared three and six-month drinking outcomes of urban S-AI adults by type of meeting attended. They examined the association between frequency of AA attendance and differences between types of meetings attended regressed on the outcomes of proportion abstinent days and drinks per drinking day. Results showed that AA attendance is the model approach and assists urban S-AI adults in reducing their drinking.

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Older Patients (Still) Left Out of Cancer Clinical Trials

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Authors: Jennifer Abbasi
Publication Year: 2019
Last Updated: 2021-07-14 10:40:19
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
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A decade before he became the US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, published a 2004 study in JAMA about participants in cancer clinical trials. Among other findings, Murthy and his coauthors concluded that from 2000 to 2002, people aged 65 years or older were “strikingly underrepresented” in a set of National Cancer Institute–funded drug trials. Fifteen years later, a JAMA Oncology study suggests that not much has changed for older people with cancer. In fact, things appear to be getting worse.

For the new study, researcher Ethan Ludmir, MD, a radiation oncology resident at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,Texas, and colleagues considered the same cancers as Murthy: breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate—the 4 types that strike and kill the most people every year. But they cast a wider net, looking at all 302 phase 3 randomized, multigroup clinical trials for these cancers that initiated enrollment from 1994 to 2015.

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A decade before he became the US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, published a 2004 study in JAMA about participants in cancer clinical trials. Among other findings, Murthy and his coauthors concluded that from 2000 to 2002, people aged 65 years or older were “strikingly underrepresented” in a set of National Cancer Institute–funded drug trials. Fifteen years later, a JAMA Oncology study suggests that not much has changed for older people with cancer. In fact, things appear to be getting worse.

For the new study, researcher Ethan Ludmir, MD, a radiation oncology resident at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,Texas, and colleagues considered the same cancers as Murthy: breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate—the 4 types that strike and kill the most people every year. But they cast a wider net, looking at all 302 phase 3 randomized, multigroup clinical trials for these cancers that initiated enrollment from 1994 to 2015.

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Blood Mercury Reporting in NHANES: Identifying Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and Multiracial Groups

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Authors: Ann O’Hare, Jane M. Hightower, German T. Hernandez
Publication Year: 2006
Last Updated: 2021-07-14 10:35:36
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
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Due to the fact that Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methyl mercury through fish consumption, researchers in this study used NHANES data from 1999–2002 to obtain population estimates of blood mercury levels among women of childbearing age classified as belonging to the “other” racial/ethnic group (Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and multiracial. Blood mercury levels in this group were compared with those among all other women participants, classified as Mexican American, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and “other” Hispanic.

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Due to the fact that Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methyl mercury through fish consumption, researchers in this study used NHANES data from 1999–2002 to obtain population estimates of blood mercury levels among women of childbearing age classified as belonging to the “other” racial/ethnic group (Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and multiracial. Blood mercury levels in this group were compared with those among all other women participants, classified as Mexican American, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and “other” Hispanic.

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Risk Analysis: Changes needed from a Native American Perspective

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Authors: Stuart Harris
Publication Year: 2014
Last Updated: 2021-07-12 16:49:57
Journal: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal
Keywords: Health Disparities

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The objective of this article is to help risk assessors and managers step back from paying sole attention to very specific details (e.g., measuring nuances of a single chemical's biochemical action at the molecular level). The authors of the article wanted to stress the importance of the higher service that risk assessment provides, which is to improve everyone's long-term well being and survival.

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The objective of this article is to help risk assessors and managers step back from paying sole attention to very specific details (e.g., measuring nuances of a single chemical's biochemical action at the molecular level). The authors of the article wanted to stress the importance of the higher service that risk assessment provides, which is to improve everyone's long-term well being and survival.

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Lifestyles, Diets, and Native American Exposure Factors Related to Possible Lead Exposures and Toxicity

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Authors: Stuart Harris, Barbara L. Harper
Publication Year: 2020
Last Updated: 2021-07-12 16:46:53
Journal: Environmental Research
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This article highlights that Lead exposure is still a national concern, and it is possible that Native Americans who live on reservations and pursue traditional lifestyles may be at higher risk through both their unique exposure and their potentially greater sensitivity. A major component of the exposure assessment is the diet. For tribal members, traditional lifestyles that include native foods, medicines, and traditional practices have evolved and proven to be the most healthful over many thousands of years of coexistence with the environment. However, a completely traditional diet may not be fully available for a variety of reasons; so, this study considers the adverse health consequences caused by the loss of healthy native foods and medicines, the contamination of remaining native foods, the inability to practice one’s religion, and the possibly lower quality of the substitute diet.

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This article highlights that Lead exposure is still a national concern, and it is possible that Native Americans who live on reservations and pursue traditional lifestyles may be at higher risk through both their unique exposure and their potentially greater sensitivity. A major component of the exposure assessment is the diet. For tribal members, traditional lifestyles that include native foods, medicines, and traditional practices have evolved and proven to be the most healthful over many thousands of years of coexistence with the environment. However, a completely traditional diet may not be fully available for a variety of reasons; so, this study considers the adverse health consequences caused by the loss of healthy native foods and medicines, the contamination of remaining native foods, the inability to practice one’s religion, and the possibly lower quality of the substitute diet.

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Characteristics of Symptomatic Women of Reproductive Age with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Pregnancy Status —

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Authors: Laura D. Zambrano, PhD, Sascha Ellington, PhD, Penelope Strid, MPH, Romeo R. Galang, MD, Titilope Od
Publication Year: 2020
Last Updated: 2021-07-12 16:44:29
Journal: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
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Findings from a CDC study highlight the importance of counseling pregnant women about their risk for severe COVID-19 illness and the potential risk for preterm birth. "Update: Characteristics of Symptomatic Women of Reproductive Age with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Pregnancy Status—United States, January 22–October 3, 2020," found that pregnant women with COVID-19 are at increased risk for severe illness, compared with non-pregnant women with COVID-19.

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Findings from a CDC study highlight the importance of counseling pregnant women about their risk for severe COVID-19 illness and the potential risk for preterm birth. "Update: Characteristics of Symptomatic Women of Reproductive Age with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Pregnancy Status—United States, January 22–October 3, 2020," found that pregnant women with COVID-19 are at increased risk for severe illness, compared with non-pregnant women with COVID-19.

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Birth and Infant Outcomes Following Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pregnancy — SET-NET, 16 Jurisdictions, March 29–October 14, 2020

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Authors: Kate R. Woodworth, MD, Emily O’Malley Olsen, PhD, Varsha Neelam, MPH; Elizabeth L. Lewis, MPH1; Ro
Publication Year: 2020
Last Updated: 2021-07-12 16:43:15
Journal: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Keywords: Health Disparities

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The CDC study, "Birth and Infant Outcomes Following Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pregnancy—SET-NET, 16 Jurisdictions, March 29–October 14, 2020," found that pregnant women with COVID-19 may be at increased risk of having a preterm infant (born before 37 weeks), which may lead to serious health problems for the infant.

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The CDC study, "Birth and Infant Outcomes Following Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pregnancy—SET-NET, 16 Jurisdictions, March 29–October 14, 2020," found that pregnant women with COVID-19 may be at increased risk of having a preterm infant (born before 37 weeks), which may lead to serious health problems for the infant.

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Concept Paper: Policy Options for Community-Defined Evidence Practices (CDEPS)

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Authors: Kiran Savage-Sangwan, MPA, Carolina Valle, MSW, Joel Jenkins
Publication Year: 2021
Last Updated: 2021-07-12 16:40:22
Journal: California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Keywords: Ethnicity, Minority Groups

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There has been extensive research on behavioral health disparities in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Plus (LGBTQ+) communities. Now, the national movement for racial justice also aims to do the same for Californians.

This concept paper is an attempt to outline policy opportunities and approaches for greater valuation and acceptance of the behavioral health practices BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities have used for many years to support their behavioral health and wellbeing.

The changes recommended in this paper fall under the jurisdiction of various state authorities, agencies, and local communities.

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There has been extensive research on behavioral health disparities in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Plus (LGBTQ+) communities. Now, the national movement for racial justice also aims to do the same for Californians.

This concept paper is an attempt to outline policy opportunities and approaches for greater valuation and acceptance of the behavioral health practices BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities have used for many years to support their behavioral health and wellbeing.

The changes recommended in this paper fall under the jurisdiction of various state authorities, agencies, and local communities.

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