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EMS Service Integration in American Indian and Native Alaskan Rural Communities.
This article outlines several initiatives to optimize and expand emergency medical services (EMS) in American Indian and Native Alaskan (AI/NA) rural communities. It highlights the significance of cultural humility, cost-effectiveness, equity, and tribal sovereignty in EMS licensure and describes key infrastructure improvements (eg, roads and communication systems) to EMS responsiveness in AI/NA rural communities. This article also examines practical and financial strategies for integrating telehealth and drone-based delivery of critical medicines into rural EMS response capacity.
期刊介绍:
The AMA Journal of Ethics exists to help medical students, physicians and all health care professionals navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society. The journal publishes cases and expert commentary, medical education articles, policy discussions, peer-reviewed articles for journal-based and audio CME, visuals, and more. Since its inception as an editorially-independent journal, we promote ethics inquiry as a public good.