KFF Health News on MSN

Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend.

Native American women face higher rates of death than other demographics. In response, Native Americans have been working with state and federal officials to boost tribal participation and leadership ...
Los Angeles Times

‘We are still here, yet invisible.’ Study finds that U.S. government has overestimated Native American life expectancy

Official U.S. records dramatically underestimate mortality and life expectancy disparities for Native Americans, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of the American ...
STAT

Why a lot of Native American deaths are not counted

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than ...