In the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (hereinafter “the
Act”), Public Law 94–437, the Congress and the President of the
United States established a national goal “to provide the quantity
and quality of health services which aximum partwill permit the
health status of Indians to be raised to the highest possible level
and to encourage the micipation of Indians in the planning and
management of those services”To accomplish this
goal, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (I H C I A) and its
subsequent amendments of 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996 authorize the I
H S to conduct three interrelated scholarship programs to train the
professional health personnel necessary to staff I H S health
programs serving the Indian people. These scholarship programs are
the:
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