The Importance of Understanding Social Context in the Reduction of AEP Risk among Native Women.

The goal of this commentary is to outline important paths for addressing AEP prevention in Native (e.g., American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Indigenous, and First Nations) women that holistically takes into account the views of the women and communities impacted by these interventions. Reducing alcohol consumption to below bingeing levels is a focus of Healthy People 2020, which sets data-driven national objections to improve the health in the U.S. For women, risky drinking includes either binge (i.e. four or more drinks on an occasion) or heavy (i.e. eight or more drinks per week) drinking (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, no date), with recommendations for complete abstinence from alcohol during pregnancy.