Talk:Indian Health Service

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Currently, the main text of this article is copied from. According to a notice at that website, pages at that website are in the public domain unless indicated otherwise, as they are usually works of the United States federal government. As such, the text at the current revision is in the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 03:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Much work to be done on the IHS Page
Sadly, there is NOT enough accurate information on this page. The Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service draws military benefits and during times of war as authorized by executive order can be a military service, but are not militarized, but rather one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The Commissioned Corps of the USPHS is the uniformed component of the Department of Health & Human Services.

Also, there is not enough coverage of Title I and Title V PL 93-638, where Tribes have the authority to take over programs and services of IHS and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.162.30 (talk) 01:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds interesting. Please add it. Ando228 (talk) 15:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I hope to help out by adding additional information about the following legislations Aigilglez (talk) 05:16, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Why are so many urban Indians not eligible under IHS? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.162.41.81 (talk) 21:12, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Needs a lot of updating on the Director and Area Directors, Dr. Roubideux left in 2014. She was never confirmed and could not legally remain as acting Director any longer. McSwain is Acting Director now. At least two of the Area Directors listed are no longer there. I'll work on updating some if it as I find the right material, especially regarding Dr. Roubideux. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C402:940:D071:EFED:174E:AC3D (talk) 16:54, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Moved 2nd Paragraph To New Section
I moved the 2nd paragraph to a new section at the bottom, since I thought the top section should just provide the overall summary of what the IHS is, as with most Wikipedia articles.

Sorry if I don't respond in a long time. I rarely edit Wikipedia, but I felt like this should be edited to avoid giving undue weight to this particular report when most people are looking for a general overview of the topic. --Evan Donovan (talk) 15:22, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Editing IHS page
As part of a health policy course, my teammates and I plan on updating the IHS page and addressing the suggestions mentioned on this talk page. Our goals are: - Verifying the accuracy of information on the page/citing - Researching Title I and Title V PL 93-638 and including appropriate coverage - Including information about the IHS national formulary - Discussing eligibility requirements - Adding services/benefits provided by the IHS and unmet need (ie. hepatitis C coverage) Priyavallabh (talk) 15:45, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I appreciated the group consolidating duplicate information and moving them under the correct headings, as it made the article easier to follow as a reader. I thought the eligibility requirements section was a good addition because people on this page may be wondering whether they qualify or not. Some technical tips for adhering to the Wiki manual of style: 1) Technical jargon / medical abbreviations - should write out the full acronym on first mention (i.e. hepatitis C virus (HCV)). 2) Formal tone - avoid casual and opinionated language and use neutral tone (i.e. “IHS was hit hard by budget sequestration…” “severely criticized”). 3) Capitalization - generic titles of peoples should be lowercased (director, chief medical officer, deputy director, etc.) Otherwise, the titles of headings and subtopic headings were concise and relevant to the information provided. Secondary sources were used for citations as well. Dmcha (talk) 18:48, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This group added many high-quality sections including “Services and Benefits”, “Eligibility”, “Direct Care versus Purchased/Referred Care (PRC)”, “IHS National Core Formulary”, “Necessity for Hepatitis C coverage”, “Budget” and “Current issues”. These edits significantly bolstered the article and accomplished the goals expressed on their talk page. These sections are generally written in a neutral tone and statistics and statements are sufficiently cited with appropriate secondary sources. Jeffho1 (talk) 19:22, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I am impressed by the changes this group made to the edits. Not only did they add new headings, made clarifications, and generally improved the content of the page, they also meticulously found and fixed existing links that were broken. Altogether, they enhanced the quality of this page. The points included during the most recent edits are all fully cited with URLs so that the sources are verifiable and accessible to the public. This is the level of transparency that we need in wikipedia articles.JackDaniels2019 (talk) 03:26, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * After reviewing the most recent edits on this page, I did not see anything that would violate the plagiarism or copyright policies of wikipedia. The edits made truly improved the quality of this page as it seemed to have little information beforehand.  The sources used are appropriate secondary sources that provided valid information to be included in this article. It seems like the edits have sparked other Wikipedians to start making edits to this page as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmarie14 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 7 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you all for your criticism and compliments. In response to Dmcha's suggestions:
 * 1). We re-read our sections to ensure that abbreviations were written out on first mention.
 * 2). We also felt that those phrases were polarized, but we did not write them. We did not want to change aspects of the page that we were not familiar with, especially when we were not original contributors. Thus, we made no changes.
 * 3). We did not include any titles in the sections that we authored. The only capitalized titles have existed on the page for years, and we were unsure if the grammar rules applied as they're listed after colons/before commas as job titles. Thus, we made no changes. Another user did go through and grammatically correct our capitalization of hepatitis C. Priyavallabh (talk) 16:44, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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Sterilization
Noticed the word Sterilize isn't in this article. That would be like an article on Germany that doesn't mention the Holocaust.173.16.27.205 (talk) 09:51, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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