NNHS/Iina Project
The Navajo Nation Health Survey (NNHS)
What is an example of a tribal BRFSS health survey?
The leading cause of mortality on the Navajo Nation.
What is Unintentional Injury?
The primary rodent carrying the hantavirus.
What is Deer Mouse?
Grantor or funder of the Native Connections grant.
The study and control of disease or injury patterns in human populations.
What is Epidemiology?
A national telephone survey that collects state data about U.S. residents regarding health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.
What is a Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)?
The second leading cause of mortality on the Navajo Nation.
What is Cancer?
One Hantavirus Prevention.
What is keeping mice out of the home?
What is proper cleaning methods?
What is sealing holes and gaps in home/garage?
What is keeping a clean home and minimize food access?
The primary focus/reason for the Community Readiness Assessment.
What is Suicide Prevention?
The Navajo term for epidemiology.
What is Naalniih Naalkaah?
A method of data collection used by the Navajo Nation Health Survey (NNHS) and the Iina Project: A Needs Survey.
What is an In-Person Interview via Questionnaire?
Uses data collected and shared by our State partners to identify Cancer, Unintentional Injuries, and Heart Disease as the leading causes of death.
What is the Navajo Nation Mortality Report?
Hantavirus transmission to humans.
What is through the inhalation of infected deer mice urine, droppings, and/or saliva?
Age range the Native Connections grant focuses on.
What is 10 - 24 years old?
The rate of diabetes in 100 people if 30 of them have diabetes.
What is 30%?
Navajo Nation Chapters and their Chapter residents being randomly chosen from the 110 NN Chapters to participate in a health survey.
What is a Random Sample Selection?
An unintentional injury.
What is a preventable injury?
Cleaning methods to prevent Hantavirus transmission.
What is wet cleaning methods with a disinfectant like bleach diluted with water?
A Navajo Nation strength and a protective factor.
What is Navajo language/culture/tradition?
A category of disease that persists for a long time and generallly cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication.
What is Chronic Disease?
1,200 surveys of 18+ year old adults for NNHS, or 350 surveys of 55+ year old adults for the Iina Project: A Needs Survey.
What is a Population Sampling?
States included in the Navajo Nation Mortality Report
What is Arizona, Utah and New Mexico?
First Symptoms of hantavirus
What is fatigue, fever, muscle aches, and abdominal pain?
A youth focus group.
What is providing valuable insights into youth perceptions, attitudes and experiences?
The words in the acronym CDC.
What is the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention?