National Veteran Health Equity Report - American Indian or Alaska Native Veteran Chartbook. Focus on Veterans Health Administration Patient Experience and Health Care Quality

Washington DL, Jackson LB, Kasom DR, Canning MT, Jeong S, López L, Yuan A, Toyama JA, Steers WN. National Veteran Health Equity Report - American Indian or Alaska Native Veteran Chartbook. Focus on Veterans Health Administration Patient Experience and Health Care Quality. Washington, DC: Office of Health Equity Veterans Health Administration; 2022 Nov 1. 37 p.

The National Veteran Health Equity Report 2021 provides information regarding disparities in patient experiences and health care quality for Veterans who obtain health care services through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).1 Data on disparities are presented by the sociodemographic characteristics of race/ethnicity, gender, age group, rurality of residence, socio-economic status, and service-connected disability rating, and by cardiovascular risk factors of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes. This chartbook focuses on experiences of care and health care quality of single race American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans receiving care in VHA. Data in this report are from the fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2019 Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP)-Patient Centered Medical Home survey instrument, and the fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2019 VA External Peer Review Program quality monitoring program. Data focus on single race American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans because data on multiple race Veterans are incomplete. As of 2016, single race American Indian and Alaska Native people make up about 1.3% of the total U.S. population.2 Between 2010 and 2020, this group increased by 27% from 2.9 to 3.7 million Americans.3 People who identify as American Indian and Alaska Native and another race exceed the number of people who identify as single race American Indian and Alaska Native. Together, the American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in combination population grew from 5.2 to 9.7 million Americans between 2010 and 2020.3