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This explainer includes info on fatal drowning trends over the past two decades; recent reports on disparities in fatal drowning rates among Black, Alaska Native and American Indian youth; the role of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic; and research on prevention.
Health care professionals are warning of a triple threat facing Indian Country. Cases of three respiratory illnesses are on the rise among Indigenous people.
Fingerlakes1.com Menu Have a tip for the newsroom, press release, local event listing or digital content to share? Send it here. Support our mission by visiting patreon.com/fl1 and becoming a monthly subscriber. A virtual community conversation led by, and for, Indigenous people—often referred to as an “invisible minority”—will cover the history of health and stigma surrounding vaccinations, as well as provide current information about COVID-19 prevention and inoculation. “There’s been so much talk in the local media about vaccine equity, but Indigenous people have been largely le...
and last updated 2021-04-07 17:53:56-04 IRVING, N.Y. (WKBW) â Wednesday marked the first pop-up vaccine clinic held at a truck stop, offering COVID-19 vaccines to truck drivers, motorists, Natives from the Allegany and Cattaraugus Territories and residents from surrounding communities. J.C. Seneca, Owner of Native Pride Travel Plaza in Seneca's Tallchief Territory, partnered with G-Health Enterprises to make this happen. "We have to reach a certain percentile to make sure that as a nation, we can get through this period of this pandemic, and come out on the other side better off," he sai...
University at Buffalo Dean Seneca, CEO and founder Seneca Scientific Solutions+ BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the University at Buffalo seeks to expand its commitment to Indigenous studies, a new course being offered this spring in the School of Public Health and Health Professions aims to teach students about the health disparities Indigenous populations face. The Indigenous health disparities course will be taught by Dean S. Seneca, who grew up in Buffalo and whose family origins are founded in Western New York with the Seneca Nation of Indians. A nationally-recognized expert in health sciences an...