Native Americans Behaviors

Behaviors That Affect the Health of Native Americans The main behaviors leading to most health disparities are drinking; Native Americans have high rates of alcoholism, binge drinking episodes, and cirrhosis of the liver. There is correlation of alcohol use with tobacco use, and this is true for Native Americans. While other groups have decreased their use for tobacco, the rates steadily climb for Native Americans. Because of the road and law enforcement, in terms of infrastructure, the amounts of driving under the influence have resulted in the highest rates of MVAs and pedestrian hits. Lastly, are eating habits, which due to low incomes have caused obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension. In some cases, where the living

Currently, Native Americans have third highest rates of all forms of cancer, along with the lowest survival rates in these events. These types of cancer are: colorectal, gallbladder, kidney, liver, lung, and stomach. Native American woman currently have the highest mortality rates with cervical cancer (Kosoko-Lasaki, Cook, & O 'Brien, 2009). These occurrences of cancer disparities are due to lack of education, screening, and treatment.
Native Americans and Cancer Cancer rates, especially for Native Americans is high. Native American men have the highest rates, in the nation, for color, rectal, pancreas, and stomach cancers. Women are highest for

The healing, then, is focused on the person, and not on the symptoms or the disease (Anonymous, 2008). They tend to view illness as something that comes from evil spirits or punishment for not carrying out personal rituals or perhaps a curse from the dead (Carteret, 2013), it is because of these beliefs that they would turn to specials rituals and seek council with an elder. The steps they might take are to participate in drumming, go into a sweat lodge, talking circles, ceremonial tobacco smoking, Shamans [healers], vision quests, smudging [the burning of herbs], chants or ceremonies, or the person might abstain from food and water, once deemed illegal [now legal as The Freedom of Religion Act 1978] to rid the disease or evil spirits, or a fusion of Western medicine and Native American healing for a synergistic effect (Anonymous, 2008). Other cultural practices are that the healing process chosen last over days, is kept secret from outsiders, and to have anything removed during a surgical procedure back to them, so that they cannot be used on another family member. Autopsy is not allowed as the body needs to be whole to cross over to the spiritual world (Abbott,