Lecture

Yá’át’ééh: Medical Tales from Navajo Nation

Shock trauma Auditorium

• Indian Health Services IHS serves 3.7 million beneficiaries. Annually, there is 5.4 billion dollars dedicated funding. The funding per beneficiary is $1,400 per IHS patient. This is in comparison to another federal program, the VHA, which receives $24,000 annual funding per patient • Life expectancy for Native Americans is approximately 4.5 years less than the general population of the United States. Certain diseases having a higher incidence in this patient population- I.e. alcohol related deaths and chronic liver disease is 4-6x higher compared to the general population. • Let’s strive to incorporate Ké and Hózho into patient communication and facilitate optimism in patient counseling rather than focusing on the negative consequences.

Senior Lecture

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  Lauren Rosenblatt, MD

  University of Maryland

  Contact Speaker

Dec 4, 2019 - 9:45 am

45 minutes

45 minutes

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