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Download full textPublic Health Service (DHEW), Washington, DC. Div. of Indian Health. – 1972
The American Indian Health Service (AIHS) is a component of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Health Services and Mental Health Administration. AIHS is responsible to 422,000 Indians belonging to more than 250 tribes and 53,000 Indians living in 300 Alaskan villages. The goal of the AIHS is to raise the health of the Indian and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Eskimos
Indian Health Service (PHS/HSA), Rockville, MD. – 1985
Comprehensive health care (preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and environmental) for more than 930,000 eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives is the responsibility of the Indian Health Service (IHS). Since 1955, this agency of the U.S. Public Health Service has made notable progress in raising the health status of Indians and Alaska…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Delivery Systems, Health Facilities
