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The Indian Health Service ( IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people. IHS is the principal federal health care provider and ...
The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) is the federal uniformed service of the PHS, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States . PHS had its origins in the system of marine hospitals that originated in 1798. In 1871 these were consolidated into the Marine Hospital Service, and shortly afterwards the position ...
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
Hospitals in Arizona. Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation manages a hospital, 12 clinics, and mobile clinics in Tuba City, Arizona. The hospital and clinics serve primarily Native Americans ( Navajo, Hopi, and Southern Paiute people) in Arizona. The hospital was part of the Indian Health Service until 2002 when management was shifted to ...
The Indian Health Service, treated much like a state for distribution purposes, submitted a plan to vaccinate more than 2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The agency expects to receive ...
The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002, and then again updated in 2017. The recent four main updates in 2017 mention the need to focus on the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, the emergence of the robust healthcare industry, growing incidences of unsustainable expenditure due to healthcare costs, and rising economic growth ...
Alaska Native Medical Center. / 61.18278°N 149.80056°W / 61.18278; -149.80056. The Alaska Native Medical Center ( ANMC) is a non-profit health center based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which provides medical services to 158,000 Alaska Natives and other Native Americans in Alaska. [1] It acts as both the secondary and tertiary ...
IHS Markit Ltd was an information services provider that completed a merger with S&P Global in 2022. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] Headquartered in London , it was formed in 2016 with the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Ltd. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]