Advancing Suicide Prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations

• Main Authors: Wexler, L., Chandler, M., Gone, J.P., Cwik, M., Kirmayer, L.J., La Fromboise, T., Brockie, T., O'Keefe, V., Walkup, J., Allen, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Indian; inuit; inuits; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302517

As part of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of AI/AN suicide research experts convened to outline pressing issues related to this subfield of suicidology. Suicide disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples, and remote Indigenous communities can offer vital and unique insights with relevance to other rural and marginalized groups. Outcomes from this meeting include identifying the central challenges impeding progress in this subfield and a description of promising research directions to yield practical results. These proposed directions expand the alliance's prioritized research agenda and offer pathways to advance the field of suicide research in Indigenous communities and beyond. Alaska; American Indian; cultural competence; ethnology; health promotion; health services research; human; indigenous health care; Inuit; organization and management; rural population; suicide, Alaska; Cultural Competency; Health Promotion; Health Services Research; Health Services, Indigenous; Humans; Indians, North American; Inuits; Rural Population; Suicide