Trends in Indian Health contains tables and charts describing the Indian Health Service program and the health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Information pertaining to the IHS structure, American Indian and Alaska Native demography, patient care, and community health are included. Historical trends are depicted, and comparisons to other population groups are made, when appropriate. The material in Trends in Indian Health is grouped into eight .pdf files.* Remember, if you want the complete publication, you must download all eight files. If you only want part of the publication, you may download only the specific files in which you are interested. The first pdf file contains-- Title page Preface Table of Contents Overview of the Indian Health Service Program Purpose and Description of Trends in Indian Health Sumary of Data Shown Sources and Limitations of Data Glossary Sources of Additional Information The second pdf file contains-- Part 1--Indian Health Service Structure The third pdf file contains-- Part 2--Population Statistics The fourth pdf file contains-- Part 3--Natality and Infant/Maternal Mortality Statistics The fifth pdf file contains-- Part 4--General Mortality Statistics The sixth pdf file contains-- Part 5--Patient Care Statistics The seventh pdf file contains-- Part 6--Community Health Statistics The eighth pdf file contains-- Glossary of ICD-9 Codes Methods Used to Rank Leading Sites of Cancer Deaths Index to Charts and Tables *The Trends in Indian Health 1998–99 is available on-line in portable document format (PDF) files. This file format is viewable only with Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) Reader or Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) Exchange software. (Link to Adobe PDF plug-in.) Before downloading .pdf files, you should first set up Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) as a helper application on your browser. For more information, see Adobe's "Downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader Software." Please e-mail questions and comments to Edna Paisano (epaisano@hqe.ihs.gov), Team Leader, Program Statistics Team.