Health and Social Services

This area assesses the islands health care and social services system, their availability and existing capacities and challenges. Further looks into the capability of these systems to respond to increases in demand associated with private sector developments or DoD activities.

Detailed analysis of this Functional Area of Interest (FAI) can be found here:

Volume VII - Health and Social Services

Full descriptions of all baseline conditions is contained in the Baseline Report on Current Conditions and Challenges.

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The following documents are resources utilized in the analysis of this FAI:

• 1984 Government Accounting Office Report - Ways to Reduce the Cost of Medical Referral Programs in Micronesia and American Samoa

• 1996 Journal Article “At the Crossroads: Addressing the Future of Health Care Delivery in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands”

• General Health of the CNMI Dataset (Spreadsheet), 1999

• Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Strategic Plan 2015-2020

• CNMI Medicaid Agency Annual Report, 2019

• Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, White Paper on Health, Health Care Access, and Health Care Finance Issues Identified by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, House of Representatives, 22nd CNMI Legislature

• The Final Report on the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

• A Report on the 2011 Behavioral Health Survey

• A Report on the 2013 Behavioral Health Survey

• Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Non-Communicable Diseases & Risk Factor Hybrid Survey Report, 2016

• Current CNMI Labor Force Participation and Unemployment, Based on the 2016 CNMI Health Survey

• CNMI Medical Referral Program, Briefing Paper, 2020

• CHCC Responses to Baseline Assessment Survey Questionnaire, 2019

• Testimony of Esther L. Muna, CHCC CEO Before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources on the “Insular Areas Medicaid Cliff”, May 2019

• Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation Project Submission for DoD Innovative Readiness Training Program

• Pacific Island Health Officers' Association, Resolution No. 2019-65-01

• Nutrition Assistance Program Data (Spreadsheet), 2021