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The Native American Health Center ( NAHC) is a non-profit organization serving California's San Francisco Bay Area Native Population and other under-served populations in the Bay Area since 1972. [1] The Native American Health Center, Inc. was founded in 1972 as the Urban Indian Health Board, Inc. [2] NAHC operates two sites in San Francisco ...
The Indian Health Service ( IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people. IHS is the principal federal health care provider and ...
An enlargeable map of the 58 counties of the state of California. This is a list of hospitals in California (), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital."
The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians are a federally recognized tribe of Luiseño who live on the Rincon Indian Reservation in the Valley Center CDP, San Diego County, California. It is one of six such tribes in Southern California that are composed of Luiseño people. [ 1] The Luiseño are considered one of the groups of the California Mission ...
Cecilia Fire Thunder (born Cecilia Apple; October 24, 1946) is a nurse, community health planner and tribal leader of the Oglala Sioux. On November 2, 2004, she was the first woman elected as president of the Tribe. She served until being impeached on June 29, 2006, several months short of the two-year term.
The leading causes of death by percentage for Native Americans and Alaska Natives for 2005. Heart disease accounted for 25% of deaths, cancer 22%, accidents 19%, diabetes 7%, liver disease 6%, suicide 6%, respiratory diseases 6%, stroke 4%, homicide 3%, and influenza and pneumonia 3%. Native Americans share many of the same health concerns as ...
56 year old John Zielke is a regular volunteer at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center. Here he is helping 71 year old Wanda Lee Corn with her Tribal Elder Food Box on Friday the 9th of ...
San Diego State University is a member of the Western Association of Graduate Schools, [2] the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, [3] and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. [4] The GSPH also maintains its own chapter in the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health . The school's mission is "to improve ...