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Indian Health Service

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Indian Health Service,
a bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services for providing public health and medical services to Native Americans and Alaska natives in the United States. In Canada the services are provided by the Ministry of Indian Affairs.


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More than 50 percent of adults on the reservation have the disease, according to Indian Health Service.
The Public Health Service and the Indian Health Service deliver care to thousands of underserved individuals.
The majority of Navajo women receive their care from Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities, and a central Navajo Area IHS maternal and child health committee periodically reviews prenatal records to assess the proportion of women who said that their pregnancy was unplanned.
 
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