American Indians and Alaska Natives in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Grave Burden We Stand to Bear

Erik Brodt; Allison Empey

doi:10.1089/heq.2021.0011

American Indians and Alaska Natives in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Grave Burden We Stand to Bear

Erik Brodt, Allison Empey

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The United States is bearing witness as a crisis-within-a-crisis unfolds across Indian Country, where a persistently underfunded system with inadequate resources and outdated facilities set the stage for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to overwhelm Tribes. Now is the time to reimagine our way forward as a country beyond the pandemic. To address these issues, we recommend that (1) the federal government appropriately fund the Indian Health Service and work more closely with tribal governments, and (2) programs that recruit, train, and retain American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health professionals be expanded. We offer guidance on decisive and impactful steps that can be taken, together, today.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	394-397
Number of pages	4
Journal	Health Equity
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2021.0011
State	Published - Jun 1 2021

Keywords

American Indian health
COVID-19
Indigenous health
Native American health
health inequities

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Information Management

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