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COMMUNITY ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE
HAS REDUCED AI/AN MORTALITY
2 graphs:
One shows the reduction in infant mortality rates for American Indians & Alaska Natives from well above the national average down to the average (from 1973 to 2002).
The other graph shows the following:
| |
% Decrease in Mortality Rates since 1973 |
| Suicide |
12.8 |
| Pneumonia & Influenza |
25.9 |
| Alchohol-Related |
27.2 |
| Cerebrovascular |
31.2 |
| Homicide |
54.3 |
| Accidental |
56.4 |
| Maternal Deaths |
64.0 |
| Infant Deaths |
66.0 |
| Cervical Cancer |
76.0 |
| Tuberculosis |
80.8 |
Notes:
Your going to hear, in a minute, a story that illustrates how the HIT system was born, initially, to address the acute illnesses that were responsible for much of the health disparities in 1973.
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