American Indian Health

PROGRAMS & SERVICES—NLM PROGRAMS

Alaska Native American Information from Arctic Health
(National Library of Medicine and University of Alaska Anchorage)
     The Arctic Health website is a central source for information on diverse aspects of the arctic
     environment and the health of northern peoples. It gives access to evaluated health
     information from hundreds of local, state, national, and international agencies, as well as
     from professional societies and universities.

Environmental Health Information Outreach Program - EnHIOP
(Specialized Information Services Division)
     The mission of the Environmental Health Information Outreach Program is to enhance the
     capacity of minority serving academic institutions to reduce health disparities through the
     access, use and delivery of environmental health information on their campuses and in
     their communities.

Hispanic/Native American Library School Student Support
(National Library of Medicine)
     A partnership program between The University of Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL),
     the National Library of Medicine and the Knowledge River Institute of the School of
     Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) at the University of Arizona (UA) to
     provide internships in health sciences librarianship to Hispanic and/or Native American
     students accepted in the KRI program. The internship opportunity will expose Knowledge
     River Institute students to career opportunities in health sciences librarianship by providing a
     working internship at AHSL.

Linking Native Americans to Health Information
(University of North Dakota)
     This site is designed to serve as a gateway to a variety of health information resources of
     special interest to Native Americans especially those living in North Dakota. It seeks to
     incorporate the best of existing Native health resources, government health information
     resources, and North Dakota health resources.

Native American Health Information from MedlinePlus
(National Library of Medicine)
     MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus
     brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
     and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Every racial or ethnic group
     has specific health concerns. On this page, you'll find links to health issues that affect
     Native-Americans.

Sacred Root Information Internship
(National Library of Medicine)
     The Native American Information Internship Program provides an opportunity for
     representatives from American Indian tribes, Native Alaskan villages, and the Native Hawaiian
     community to learn about the National Library of Medicine, the National Network of Libraries
     of Medicine and to use that knowledge to improve access to health information and
     technology for their communities.

Tribal Connection Project
(National Library of Medicine)
     The Tribal Connections Project was created in 1998 to assist American Indian/Alaskan
     Native (AI/AN) communities in the northwest in connecting to the Internet.
     The long-term goal of the Tribal Connections Project (TCP) was to demonstrate that
     increased Internet connectivity provides greater access to health information resources,
     thereby minimizing geographical isolation and improving access to preventive and diagnostic
     information, and new knowledge.

Symposium on Community-Based Health Information Outreach
         The goal of the symposium was to explore new models of health information outreach that
         are emerging as technology dramatically changes the abilities of medical and health
         services libraries to provide resources and services beyond their traditional institutional
         boundaries, with particular concern for consumer health information outreach through
         community-based organizations. Another objective was to review and assess the NLM's
         Strategic Plan to Reduce Health Disparities with special emphasis on Native Americans.

Tribal Connections health information outreach: results, evaluation, and challenges
         The project demonstrated the key role of tribal community involvement and empowerment
         and contributed to development of an outreach evaluation field manual and the evolving
         concept of community-based outreach.