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Integrated COVID-19 Interventions in a Native American Community: Arizona, December 25, 2021-January 31, 2022

Overview
Journal Am J Public Health
Specialty Public Health
Date 2023 Jul 27
PMID 37499203
Authors
Elizabeth A Van Dyne
Christopher Jentoft
Thomas Boone
Ryan M Close
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Abstract

COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Indigenous communities. The Whiteriver Service Unit (WRSU) took an integrated public health-health care system delivery approach in collaboration with the White Mountain Apache Tribe to decrease the case fatality rate (CFR). The WRSU performed daily data analyses identifying risk factors, expeditiously treating and proactively vaccinating people during at-home visits. The WRSU's CFR was 0.3% lower than Arizona's ( = .04). Among communities disproportionally affected, an integrated approach using data to drive real-time decision-making among a culturally competent workforce can contribute to decreased CFR. ( 2023;113(10):1089-1092. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307364).

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