Native American Health Care
The Indian Health Services and Native American Health
Despite various attempts by the Indian Health Services to improve Native American health, without the sufficient funding and necessary resources, the efficacy of health care has made little improvement over the past several decades. The brutal relationship between the United States government and Native Americans is one that cannot be ignored. It led to beginning of federally funded health care for American Indians as long as two centuries ago starting with the War Department then to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In the 1920’s the Snyder Act went into practice along with the Transfer Act of 1954 and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976 which all established a relationship …show more content…
The Indian Health Service has three goals in delivery of service. Assuring American Indians access to high-quality health care, allowing the tribes and Alaska native corporations to have authority in their health care and assisting them in doing so and acting as an advocate for the Native American People. Despite these reaches to provide the best possible care to this population, it is not enough to facilitate the needs of American Indians. Mark Trahant from the Kaiser Health News and member of the Idaho Shoshone-Bannock Tribe claims that though “the agency is a sustainable model for universal care” the IHS is to provide the same level of service to the other systems in the United States and that is just not …show more content…
Dangerous transportation routes were reportedly used with methods including snowmobile, dogsled, tractor, horse, or boat . This is a clear example of the lack of accessibility for the Native American population. To add onto this, personal and social issues were also documented to affect access. For example, lack of child care, drug addiction or fear of confidentiality when receiving health care in more rural areas. These examples also lead to fear of treatment of health care, especially when word of mistreatment and poor facilities is released into the
Despite various attempts by the Indian Health Services to improve Native American health, without the sufficient funding and necessary resources, the efficacy of health care has made little improvement over the past several decades. The brutal relationship between the United States government and Native Americans is one that cannot be ignored. It led to beginning of federally funded health care for American Indians as long as two centuries ago starting with the War Department then to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In the 1920’s the Snyder Act went into practice along with the Transfer Act of 1954 and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976 which all established a relationship …show more content…
The Indian Health Service has three goals in delivery of service. Assuring American Indians access to high-quality health care, allowing the tribes and Alaska native corporations to have authority in their health care and assisting them in doing so and acting as an advocate for the Native American People. Despite these reaches to provide the best possible care to this population, it is not enough to facilitate the needs of American Indians. Mark Trahant from the Kaiser Health News and member of the Idaho Shoshone-Bannock Tribe claims that though “the agency is a sustainable model for universal care” the IHS is to provide the same level of service to the other systems in the United States and that is just not …show more content…
Dangerous transportation routes were reportedly used with methods including snowmobile, dogsled, tractor, horse, or boat . This is a clear example of the lack of accessibility for the Native American population. To add onto this, personal and social issues were also documented to affect access. For example, lack of child care, drug addiction or fear of confidentiality when receiving health care in more rural areas. These examples also lead to fear of treatment of health care, especially when word of mistreatment and poor facilities is released into the