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1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop
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... held a workshop in Seattle, Washington, to explore the ideas at the heart of the medicine wheel. Titled Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities, 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.
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... The resulting cultural dichotomies have become a defining element in the effort to use culture to improve the health prospects of Native people. "This searching for culture, this searching for identity, the searching for belonging transcends many of the social factors that are oftentimes viewed as being important characteristics of the health dilemma," said Forquera.
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... • Governmental and institutional policies should reflect traditional medicine and cultural advocacy for the staff who provide services. • More pathways into health care, better academic preparation, more culturally aware faculty, and continual mentoring are all needed to increase the number of Native clinicians and researchers.
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... "This searching for culture, this searching for identity, the search ing for belonging transcends many of the social factors that are oftentimes viewed as being important characteristics of the health dilemma." -- Ralph Forquera
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