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January 15, 2013 | Program Result
The Notah Begay III Foundation sponsored research, meetings, and interviews on the incidence, causes, and impact of obesity and type 2 diabetes among Native American youth in New Mexico, and how to address those challenges.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result
The Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative in rural Oklahoma brings together tribal decisionmakers, health experts and farmers to help overhaul the local food system, address obesity among native people and reconnect with traditional tribal practices.
November 19, 2012 | Report
The Notah Begay III Foundation conducted stakeholder interviews and held meetings to examine the epidemics of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes among Native-American children in New Mexico. This report shares their findings.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines how language and income interact with treatment of Type II diabetes in a large managed-care trial. Previous research has shown that minorities and low-socioeconomic status individuals have more poorly controlled blood sugar levels than White Americans.
September 17, 2012 | Report
An environmental scan of New Mexico’s pueblos, tribes, and off-reservation Native communities in an effort to obtain a comprehensive picture of the obesity and diabetes epidemic in New Mexico.
December 1, 2007 | Program Result
The University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine and the Lenape Tribal Nation of Pennsylvania convened a multidisciplinary "Summit on Indian Health Care," June 9-11, 2005.
January 10, 2012 | Video/Story
Since 2005, Finding Answers has awarded and managed research grants totaling $8 million to health care organizations implementing interventions aimed at reducing disparities.
February 28, 2002 | Story
"The light at the end of the tunnel is ... that I carried the struggle further, and that I taught my children correctly, in the way they choose to continue the struggle for Indian people." - Lorelei DeCora
October 19, 2009 | News Release
Seven grants given to organizations with demonstrated abilities to develop and test interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Peter Christiansen Health Center of the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa piloted an evidence-based medicine/continuous quality improvement model of care for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.