Recommended Web Sites

Healthy People 2010 Gateway for Native Americans - The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has created this gateway to provide information to people about different health topics:
Help Your Heart
Be Active For Your Heart
Treat Your Heart to a Healthy Celebration
Keep the Harmony Within You:Check Your Blood Pressure

American Indian Health - The National Library of Medicine has created this list of resources about Indian Health.

American Indians/Native Alaskans and Lung Disease - This fact sheet is from the American Lung Association.

An Easy Guide to Breastfeeding for American Indian and Alaska Native Families - WomensHealth.gov offers this information.

Building Healthy Hearts for American Indians and Alaska Natives - The National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has issued this report on how to improve the cardiac health of American Indians and Alaska Natives. This site is in PDF format and requires an Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

Health Problems in American Indian/Alaska Native Women - WomensHealth.gov provides this information on a number of health topics.

I Can Lower My Risk for Type 2 Diabetes - Great advice, specifically for American Indians.

If You Knew the Conditions…Health Care to Native Americans - This site is a catalog of a pictorial exhibit at the National Library of Medicine. The exhibit focuses on the administration of health care to Native American recipients by the United States Government. It examines the evolution of government responsibility and its transfer through the Departments of War, the Interior, and Health, Education, and Welfare, now the Department of Health and Human Services.

Indian Health Service - The IHS mission is to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level. The HIS goal is to assure that comprehensive, culturally acceptable personal and public health services are available and accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native people.

Just For You: American Indians and Alaska Natives - HealthFinder has created this set of links to articles specifically for you.

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: Info for American Indians and Alaska Natives - Click here to see what benefits you qualify for.

MEDLINEPlus: Native American Health - The National Library of Medicine provides these links to quality web sites.

Native American Ethnobotany - A database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American Peoples, derived from plants.

Native American Food Pyramid - Check out this pyramid.

Native American Health - The National Network of Libraries of Medicine have sponsored the creation of this list of quality sites about the health of Native Americans.

Native American Health Issues - The Multicultural Clearinghouse at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides these links.

Native American Herbal Remedies - Interesting list from the newspaper "Cherokee Messenger" detailing which herbs have been used to fight which diseases throughout the years.

Protect the Circle of Life: Immunize Our Nations - Good reasons why to immunize against diseases that can be prevented.

Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities - Read about the disparities between the different races and ethnic groups at this site from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Recipe Source: Native American Recipes - Find more than thirty recipes for Native American foods here at Recipe Source.

Strong in Body and Spirit: the Native American Diabetes Project - The Native American Diabetes Project's goal is to help people eat healthy foods and increase exercise. This is done by working together with Native American communities. Ideas from the communities are used to make a program that is specifically designed for Rio Grande Pueblo people.