Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth: Workshop Summary

by Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, et al.

More than 2 million Americans below age 24 self-identify as being of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. Many of the serious behavioral, emotional, and physical health concerns facing young people today are especially prevalent with Native youth (e.g., depression, violence, and substance abuse). Adolescent Native Americans have death rates two to five times the rate of whites in the same age group because of higher levels of suicide and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309376130
• ISBN13: 9780309376136
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"