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Significant health status indicators for native American women.
* 60% of households are headed by females on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.
* The rate of alcohol abuse among all Native Americans and Alaska Natives is six times the national rate.
* In South Dakota, Native Americans comprise 6.9% of the overall population, yet 50% of all reported cases of domestic violence and sexual abuse are from Native Americans.
* Twenty-eight percent of American Indian and Alaska Native people live in poverty, more than twice the U.S. average. Poverty is a condition that increases a person's chance of getting disease because it leads to poor nutrition and health care.
* Indian women may have less access to regular health care because poverty and the nonavailability of clinics. As a result, they tend to visit a health care provider only when they know they have a problem.
* In South Dakota, Native Americans comprise 6.9% of the population but make up 9% of those infected with the AIDS virus.
* Nationally, Native American Women make up 15% of all cases of AIDS among Native Americans and Alaska Natives compared to 7% for White women.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Significant health status indicators for native American women.