Gaps in Data for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the National Healthcare Disparities Report
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest Moy
Colleen Ryan Smith
Patrick Johansson
Roxanne Andrews
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 13, no. 1, 2006, pp. 52-69
Description
Argues there is a need to improve the way data is collected to decrease health care disparities and better monitor programming. The article finds that only 42% of measures of health care quality and access tracked in the National Heathcare Disparities Report could be used to assess disparities among American Indians and Alaska Natives.