Roots of American Indian-Alaska Native: Indigenous Health Disparities (Michael E. Bird, MSW, MPH)

This presentation, from the 9th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses the nature, extent and context of health disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native populations as well as Indigenous Populations through out the world. Michael Bird, a past president of the American Public Health Association, offers an alternative to the myth of personal responsibility as the most significant factor as to why some communities are healthy and others are not. Moderator: Ursula Tsosie.

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Education

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• health disparities
• UNC
• School of Public Health
• Minority Health Project