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Tribal Health Officials ‘Blinded’ by Lack of Data - KFF Health News

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Native American communities have some of the nation’s most profound health inequities.

Tribal public health officials say they’re hobbled by state and federal agencies restricting their access to important data.

“We're being blinded,” said Meghan Curry O’Connell, chief public health officer for the Cherokee Nation .