Current research with a priori specified health economics aims includes an NIH-funded Center with three multilevel behavioural intervention trials for improving blood pressure control in people with hypertension:
- a community-based intervention to increase the availability of healthy foods (American Indians);
- a provider- and patient-based intervention using home blood pressure monitoring and targeted physician alerts in a healthcare organization (Alaska Natives);
- and a peer-facilitated educational intervention that emphasizes low salt, healthy diets based on traditional foods (Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders).
- reduce alcohol-related morbidity and mortality in American Indian and Alaska Native people:
- an intervention to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies among women of child-bearing age engaged in risky drinking behaviours;
- an intervention that incorporates a traditional cultural practice for reducing alcohol use among for individuals with alcohol use disorders;
- and an intervention to facilitate the transition from alcohol detoxification to appropriate outpatient treatment programs.
