In 1998, the Gila River Indian Community, Department of Public Health began implementation of a W. K. Kellogg grant awarded through and administered by the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO). The grant, entitled Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health, became the catalyst for the Health Department to achieve our long standing vision of transforming our tribal health department into a model for other health departments. This was to be accomplished by incorporating the values and public health concerns of the Gila River Indian Community with the core public health functions and health department structure found in the state, county or local governmental systems throughout this country.
The Initiative set three goals: (1) To identify the components of and develop a system for monitoring the health status of the Community; (2) To identify areas needing regulation by tribal ordinance, and to outline, draft and adopt such ordinances; and (3) To explore the development a Memorandum of Agreement with the Arizona Department of Health Services to address areas of mutual cooperation.
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the components of a tracking mechanism to monitor the health status of a tribal community 2. Describe the development of a tribal communicable disease ordinance.
Keywords: Native Americans, Infrastructure
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