@article{ref1,
title="Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native children and adolescents",
journal="Pediatrics",
year="2021",
author="Bell, Shaquita and Deen, Jason F. and Fuentes, Molly and Moore, Kelly",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations have substantial health inequities, and most of their disease entities begin in childhood. In addition, AI/AN children and adolescents have excessive disease rates compared with the general pediatric population. Because of this, providers of pediatric care are in a unique position not only to attenuate disease incidence during childhood but also to improve the health status of this special population as a whole. This policy statement examines the inequitable disease burden observed in AI/AN youth, with a focus on toxic stress, mental health, and issues related to suicide and substance use disorder, risk of and exposure to injury and violence in childhood, obesity and obesity-related cardiovascular risk factors and disease, foster care, and the intersection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit and AI/AN youth. Opportunities for advocacy in policy making also are presented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-4005",
doi="10.1542/peds.2021-050498",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-050498"
}