The Associations Between Health-Related Knowledge and Health Beliefs Regarding Risk for Gestational Diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native Female Adolescents and Young Adults at Risk for Gestational Diabetes and Their Female Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Dyadic Analysis.

Introduction: Research on associations between knowledge and health beliefs for women at risk for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has focused on adults at risk for or having GDM. Gaps also exist in examining interpersonal associations with family members or peers. We examined dyadic associations between knowledge and health beliefs about the risk for GDM between and within American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) female adolescents and young adults (FAYAs) at risk for GDM and their mothers or adult female caregivers (FCs).

Weaving the Strands of Life (): History of Genetic Research Involving Navajo People.

To date, some genetic studies offer medical benefits but lack a clear pathway to benefit for people from underrepresented backgrounds. Historically, Indigenous people, including the Diné (Navajo people), have raised concerns about the lack of benefits, misuse of DNA samples, lack of consultation, and ignoring of cultural and traditional ways of knowing. Shortly after the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board was established in 1996, the Navajo Nation recognized growing concerns about genetic research, and in 2002 they established a moratorium on human genetic research studies.

A collaborative case study: The Office of Native Medicine.

National concerns about reducing the persistent health disparities found among varying racial and ethnic populations have led to initiatives to improve health care delivery systems. Many of these initiatives also promote the cultural competence of health care providers as a way to meet unique patient needs that go beyond immediate health problems, and to account for other critical components of patient care, such as health literacy, health beliefs and behaviors, and cultural practices. This case study describes a patient-centered care model developed by the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, a model that has added a cadre of traditional tribal practitioners as part of its hospital and other clinical service resources.

At the Bedside: Traditional Navajo practitioners in a patient-centered health care model.

The growing national racial and ethnic diversity has created a greater need for health care delivery systems and health care providers to be more responsive to unique patient needs, that goes beyond meeting the immediate health problems to include attention to other critical component of patient care that take into account cultural competency such as health literacy, health beliefs and behaviors, cultural practices, etc.

A view from inside Arizona and New Mexico Indian country: pursuing a health career path.

Introduction: The stories of individuals working within the health system in Arizona and New Mexico Indian Country were examined to discover interests and needs related to their health career goals and advancement. The aims were: to identify what would be helpful to support educational and career progress; and to determine the barriers to advancement.

Methods: Community action research methodology was used.