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Nature Index
Perspective / 2023
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Achieving rural health equity requires patients, health workers, family caregivers, and researchers to work together to translate new knowledge into health systems and clinical care.
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Heath and Human Rights
Journal article / 2018
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New approaches to primary care are on the rise. One tribal health system is working towards health equity by addressing the social determinants of health through primary care.
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Academic Medicine
Innovation report / 2021
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Alaska Natives have long held state-conferred health rights, but health care disparities persist. Social determinants of heath and socialization for scarcity suggest why.
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World Heath Organization
Perspective / 2020
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Rural Alaska is home to one of the most innovative primary health care (PHC) systems in the world. Its strategies include building care systems around local context, culture, and values; integrating technology and community-based care; and operationalizing social medicine.
Read on in the World Heath Organization’s blog →
Northern Public Affairs
Journal article / 2018
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A promising model for increasing the advancement of Alaska Native people in the health professions, accelerating the adoption of both best practices and cultural knowledge in clinical care, and reducing costs associated with high turnover and attrition is to capitalize on established internet and telemedicine infrastructure to deliver place-based health professions education in rural and remote communities.
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Social Medicine
Journal article / 2018
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Siamit is working to move social medicine education beyond the preclinical curriculum and into rural Alaska hospitals, clinics, and communities.
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Contraception
Journal article / 2023
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Centering Iñupiaq values, strengthening patient-provider relationships, and investing in community-based social supports can contribute to improved reproductive health outcomes.
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The Harvard Gazette
Feature / 2020
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Siamit faculty Ashley Weisman and Lucas Trout describe the role of academic-tribal health partnerships in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic in rural Alaska.
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Health and Human Rights
Journal article / 2020
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Youth suicide is a significant health disparity in circumpolar indigenous communities, with devastating impacts on individual, family, and community levels. This study follows rural Alaska health workers seeking footing to redress a suicide crisis that many ascribe to colonialism itself.
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Arctic Basecamp
Lecture / 2021
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Siamit research fellow Cassidy Kramer joined Dwight Schrute (!) to discuss the impacts of climate change on her home, family, and future.
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Frontiers in Sociology
Journal article / 2020
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As grounding for our pandemic response, social medicine recommends at least three things: integrating health, social, and economic responses; bringing care to the points of greatest need; and focusing on broad equity-driven reforms in the pandemic's wake.
Read on in Frontiers in Sociology →
American Journal of Community Psychology
Journal article / 2018
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New models for suicide prevention move away from expert‐driven approaches to emphasize local control through processes that utilize research evidence, but privilege self‐ determined action based on local and personal contexts, meanings, and frameworks for action.
Read on in the American Journal of Community Psychology →
Northern Public Affairs
Journal article / 2018
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High rates of Indigenous youth suicide co-incide with the rapid, imposed social changes, forced settlement, rapid modernization and national policies of cultural assimilation of the past several decades. Although this picture is grim, Indigenous communities are responding in innovative and impactful ways.
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World Economic Forum
Lecture / 2022
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Climate change is felt deeply in the Alaskan arctic, with impacts blurring the lines between cultural, economic, environmental, and physical health.
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Unseen Upside
Podcast / 2024
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Siamit is featured in a Cambridge Partners podcast about the state and future of rural health.
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Medpage Today
Innovation report / 2024
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In rural Alaska, community health aides — alongside their counterparts in dentistry and behavioral health — remain the backbone of village-based care. These community health worker programs represent a promising strategy for addressing health disparities across Native America.
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NPR
Popular press / 2020
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As the world battles the deadly coronavirus, there is a lot we can learn from one of the great pandemics of recent centuries: tuberculosis.
Read on in NPR's Goats and Soda →
Transcultural Psychiatry
Journal article / 2018
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Indigenous communities across the Alaskan Arctic have experienced profound revisions of livelihood, culture, and autonomy over the past century of colonization, creating radical discontinuities between the lives of young people and those of their parents and Elders.
Read on in Transcultural Psychiatry →