During the time that deaths from addiction and suicide among white Americans rose by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans shot up by about 30%, a new study shows.
of Harvard University, a member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana and a co-author of theData on Native communities are often missing from public health research, he adds, because"our numbers are small and we often get folded into a category like 'Other' instead of being reported distinctively for indigenous peoples."
"Part of what I think we're seeing in these [rising rates of] deaths of despair are attacks on livelihoods," he says,"and decline in the ability to have good livelihoods." "This is a sort of astronomical inequality, you know, that should be unthinkable in our society," says Friedman. For example, he says, Native people have one of the highest rates of COVID vaccination compared to other racial and ethnic groups., as of Jan. 25, 2023, nearly 78% of American Indiana and Alaska Native people have received at least one dose of the vaccine — the highest rate compared to all other racial and ethnic groups. And 64% of this group had completed the primary series of vaccination, second only to Asian Americans.
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