Besides the Indian Health Service, what federal agencies support Native American health care initiatives?
Almost 50% of Native Americans do not live on reservations and often have greater difficulty accessing Indian Health Service resources. However, a number of other programs housed within HHS and elsewhere in the federal government support Native Americans. The CDC’s Office of Minority Health supports tribal public health initiatives. Both the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and the Office of Minority Health have programs that benefit tribal health care services. The National Institute of Health’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities is a principal supporter of health disparities research, including work on disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
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