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American Indian Health Information Resources

Access a wealth of resources on American Indian health, including general health information, specific health issues, and herbal information. Evaluate websites for accuracy, authority, bias, currency, and coverage. Explore research on indigenous medicine and traditional healing practices. Discover organizations and databases dedicated to Native American health. Find information on cancer, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse/mental health, children, teens, aging, and dietary supplements. Contact Karen Vargas for questions or suggestions.

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American Indian Health Information Resources

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  1. American Indian Health Information Resources National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region February 6, 2013 Karen Vargas Outreach and Evaluation Coordinator

  2. Agenda • General Health Information • Specific Health Issues • Herbal Information

  3. For Discussion What makes something “American Indian Health Information?”

  4. Website Evaluation Guidelines • Accuracy • Authority • Bias • Currency • Coverage

  5. Comparison Guidelines • Reading level • Easy to look at (white space, pictures) • Culturally appropriate • Respectful • Images • Language • Examples

  6. General Health Information Three Rivers Health Center, Cherokee Nation, Muskogee, OK Photograph by Karen Vargas

  7. American Indian Health http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

  8. MedlinePlus Native-American Health http://medlineplus.gov/nativeamericanhealth

  9. Indian Health Service http://www.ihs.gov/

  10. National Indian Health Board http://nihb.org

  11. National Council of Urban Indian Health http://www.ncuih.org/

  12. National Congress of American Indians http://www.ncai.org/

  13. Research on PubMed • “Indians, North American"[MeSH] • CAM subset (“or”) • Native American traditional medicine • traditional medicine • traditional indigenous • traditional healer • herbal medicine • medicinal plants http://pubmed.gov

  14. Native Health DatabaseUniversity of New Mexico http://hsc.unm.edu/community/cnah/nhd.shtml

  15. Specific Health Topics

  16. American Indian Health – Health Topics http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/topics.html

  17. Cancer Native American Cancer Research Native American Educationfor Survivors http://natamcancer.org/naces.html

  18. HIV/AIDS National Native American AIDS Prevention Center http://www.nnaapc.org/

  19. Substance Abuse/Mental Health Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Native American Center for Excellence http://nace.samhsa.gov/

  20. Children Indian County Child Trauma Center http://www.icctc.org/

  21. Teens WE R NATIVE http://www.wernative.org/

  22. Aging National Indian Council on Aging http://nicoa.org/

  23. Herbal Information

  24. University of Michigan Native American Ethnobotany http://herb.umd.umich.edu/

  25. University of WashingtonMedicinal Herb Garden http://nnlm.gov/pnr/uwmhg/

  26. Dietary Supplement Label Database http://www.dsld.nlm.nih.gov/dsld/

  27. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - About Herbs http://www.mskcc.org/aboutherbs

  28. Thank You! Questions? Suggestions? Karen Vargas karen.vargas@exch.library.tmc.edu 800-338-7657 Developed by NN/LM SCR staff.  This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

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