HPM Seminar Series

2020 Navajo Nation Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment: A Model for Improving Maternal and Child Health for Native American Communities

Christopher Dickerson, PhD
Faculty of Public Health, and
Amber Rose-Waters, BA
Research Project Coordinator
Diné College of the Navajo Nation

Hear assessment results that show Native American improvements in health, including declines in substance use, improvements in immunizations of children and pre-natal uptake of vitamins.  Navajo traditional understandings of health, including the Są’áh Naagháí Bik’eh Hózhóó framework, are a means to living a long and healthy life while maintaining balance and harmony. The use of this framework connects kinship, the environment and personal and community health. The view incorporates an understanding of health that includes not only physical aspects, but emotional and spiritual aspects, as well as the connection to the land in which we live.

HPM Seminar Series is sponsored by the Division of Health Policy.