PRESIDENT Board of Supervisors RONALD PELOSI As President of the San Francisco Board of The heritage from our California Native I wish especially to commend the Native Norwell Pelai RONALD PELOSI San Francisco Board August 11, 1972 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIAN HEALTH NEEDS Ablon, Joan "Relocation of American Indians in San Francisco Bay" Human Organization Winter 1964, page 296 Ablon, Joan, Ann H. Rosenthal and Dorothy Miller, An Overview on the Mental Health Adair, J., et al, "Pattern for Health and Disease Among the Navajos"--The Annals, - Adair, John "The Indian Health Worker in the Cornell-Navajo Project"-- Human - Fourth National Conference on Indian Health, Environmental Factors Arch Envir Health, 19:429-58, September 1969 Bosley, B. "Nutrition in the Indian Health Program" Journal American Diet. Assoc. 35:905-9, September 1959 Boyce, G. A., Alcohol and the American Indian Students Bureau of Indian Affairs-Department of Education, U. S. Department of Interior, 1965 Brophy, William A. and Sophie Aberle, The Indian, America's Unfinished Business Bunim, J. J., et al, "Influence of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Occurance of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Rheumatoid Factor in American Indians" Bull. Rheumatoid Disease, 15:349, 1964 Calin, Edgar, Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America -- Citizen Advocate Center, The World Publishing Company, New York, Cleveland "Medical Care is 46 Miles From Covelo's Indians" June 1969 (Whipple, Annabelle, RN) - 1969 Cobb, J. C., et al, "Trachoma Among Southwest Indians" - JAMA 175:40 5-6, February 1961 Cunningham, George C., "The California Rural Indian Health Board" Deusche, K. "Training and Use of Medical Auxiliaries in a Navajo Community" Public Health Report, 78:461-9, June 1963 1969 Papago Public Demographic and Socio-Cultural Characteristics: Tucson, Arizona. "Participation by off-reservation Indians in programs Health Concepts and Attitudes of the Papago Indians, Tucson, Ariz. "Some Aspects of American Indian Migration" Social Forces 48:243-250. Also in Bahr et al. op cit. SUMMARY OF A SURVEY OF AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILIES IN THE BAY AREA CONDUCTED BY THE URBAN INDIAN HEALTH BOARD IN SAN FRANCISCO FROM DECEMBER 1972 to MARCH 1973 The Urban Indian Health Board was formed in the early 1970's to deal with the pressing health problems of Native Americans in the Bay Area. We began by presenting a case for the United States Public Health Service Hospital (commonly referred to as the "Marine Hospital") to treat us urban Indians as the Public Health Service now does for reservation Indians. We had a proposal for the conversion of that hospital which met existing as well as Indian needs that was approved by the Comprehensive Health Planning Counci for San Francisco over and above seventeen other bidders, but was rejected by the Secretary's office of HEW in Washington in 1971. It was decided in HEW that we should be given funds to study this situation more thoroughly and so in March of 1972 we received $75,000 from the Community Health Service Health Services & Mental Health Administration - Health Education & Welfare, in the form of a contract (HSM 110-72-143). This contract was increased to a total of $96,000 and we have finished a household survey of some 277 randomly selected families from our list of 5,000 Indian families in the three countie where most Indians reside in the Bay Area. This study is the first scientifi cally conducted survey by Indians on Indians in urban areas. This data answe many questions in terms of socio-economic status, medical care behavior, returns to the reservations, and other problems our people face in getting health care. We are also preparing a Referral Booklet for this contract as well as for our people so that we can "plug into" the existing services withir the community much more easily. |