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LEVERAGING CULTURE TO
ADDRESS HEALTH INEQUALITIES

Examples from Native Communities

Workshop Summary

Karen M. Anderson and Steve Olson, Rapporteurs

Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the
Elimination of Health Disparities

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON LEVERAGING CULTURE TO ADDRESS HEALTH INEQUALITIES1

JENNIE R. JOE (Chair), College of Medicine, University of Arizona

EVE J. HIGGINBOTHAM, Emory School of Medicine

JOHN C. (JACK) LEWIN, Lewin and Associates

NEWELL McELWEE, Merck & Co., Inc.

MILDRED THOMPSON, PolicyLink

WILLIAM VEGA, University of California, Los Angeles

ANTONIA M. VILLARRUEL, University of Michigan

TERRI D. WRIGHT, American Public Health Association

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1Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.

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ROUNDTABLE ON THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH EQUITY AND THE ELIMINATION OF HEALTH DISPARITIES1

WILLIAM VEGA (Chair), University of Southern California

MILDRED THOMPSON (Co-Chair), PolicyLink

PATRICIA BAKER, The Connecticut Health Foundation

GILLIAN BARCLAY, Aetna Foundation

ANNE C. BEAL, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

AMERICA BRACHO, Latino Health Access

IRENE DANKWA-MULLAN, National Institutes of Health

JAMILA DAVISON, ACM Medical Transition Care

ALLAN GOLDBERG, Merck & Co., Inc.

NADINE GRACIA, Department of Health and Human Services

TOM GRANATIR, American Board of Medical Specialties

EVE J. HIGGINBOTHAM, Emory School of Medicine

A. MELISSA HOUSTON, Health Resources and Services Administration

CARA V. JAMES, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

JENNIE R. JOE, College of Medicine, University of Arizona

JAMES R. KIMMEY, Missouri Foundation for Health

ANNE C. KUBISCH, The Aspen Institute

JEFFREY LEVI, Trust for America’s Health

JOHN C. (JACK) LEWIN, Lewin and Associates

NEWELL McELWEE, Merck & Co., Inc.

PHYLLIS W. MEADOWS, Kresge Foundation

GARY NELSON, Healthcare Georgia Foundation

ELENA O. NIGHTINGALE, Institute of Medicine

DAVID PRYOR, NBC Universal

AMELIE G. RAMIREZ, University of Texas Health Science Center

JOHN RUFFIN, National Institutes of Health

MELISSA SIMON, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

SAM SO, Stanford University

PATTIE TUCKER, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

ANTONIA M. VILLARRUEL, University of Michigan

WINSTON F. WONG, Kaiser Permanente

TERRI D. WRIGHT, American Public Health Association

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1Institute of Medicine forums and roundtables do not issue, review, or approve individual documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.

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IOM Staff

KAREN M. ANDERSON, Senior Program Officer

ANDRÉS GAVIRIA, Research Associate (until August 2013)

ALEJANDRA MARTIN, Research Associate (until July 2012)

DORIS ROMERO, Financial Associate

HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Senior Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

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Reviewers

This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by persons chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the workshop summary meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this workshop summary:

Stacy Bohlen, National Indian Health Board

Loretta J. Fuddy, Hawaii Department of Health

Tom Granatir, American Board of Medical Specialties

Elena O. Nightingale, Institute of Medicine

David Pryor, NBC Universal

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this workshop summary was overseen by Ned Calonge. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this workshop summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this workshop summary rests entirely with the authors and the institution.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

ACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
AI American Indian
AN Alaska Native
 
DHAT dental health aide therapist
 
FSM Federated States of Micronesia
 
IHS Indian Health Service
IOM Institute of Medicine
 
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
 
NCAI National Congress of American Indians
 
OHSU Oregon Health and Science University
 
SAMHSA

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

SEARHC SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
 
UN United Nations
 
VA Department of Veterans Affairs
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Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities of the Institute of Medicine. The workshop brought together more than 100 health care providers, policy makers, program administrators, researchers, and Native advocates to discuss the sizable health inequities affecting Native American, Alaska Native, First Nation, and Pacific Islander populations and the potential role of culture in helping to reduce those inequities. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop and includes case studies that examine programs aimed at diabetes prevention and management and cancer prevention and treatment programs.

In Native American tradition, the medicine wheel encompasses four different components of health: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Health and well-being require balance within and among all four components. Thus, whether someone remains healthy depends as much on what happens around that person as on what happens within. Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities addresses the broad role of culture in contributing to and ameliorating health inequities.

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