Medical school aims to prepare students to help native peoples

By Marcie Kagawa

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 07, 2013

~~<p>The University of Hawaii at Manoa announced Wednesday the launch of a first-of-its-kind program to prepare health professionals to tackle the medical problems of Native Hawaiians and other indigenous people.</p>
<p>"This is such an important area because we see such a major health disparity in our Native Hawaiian population that's really mirrored in other indigenous populations throughout the world," said Jay Maddock, director of the Office of Public Health Studies in the John A. Burns School of Medicine. "You look at Native Americans, Alaskan natives, Maori, Aborigines, and that's why it's (the program) called Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health because it really is the idea of ‘How do we have indigenous populations work together to come to common solutions for health disparities?'"</p>
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The University of Hawaii at Manoa announced Wednesday the launch of a first-of-its-kind program to prepare health professionals to tackle the medical problems of Native Hawaiians and other indigenous people.

"This is such an important area because we see such a major health disparity in our Native Hawaiian population that's really mirrored in other indigenous populations throughout the world," said Jay Maddock, director of the Office of Public Health Studies in the John A. Burns School of Medicine. "You look at Native Americans, Alaskan natives, Maori, Aborigines, and that's why it's (the program) called Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health because it really is the idea of ‘How do we have indigenous populations work together to come to common solutions for health disparities?'" Login for more...