Asian Pacific Islander Health

Takada, Erika; Ford, J.M.; Lloyd, Linda S.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-1936-6_16

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“…Asian Americans comprise multiple ethnic groups that have been found to underutilize healthcare services compared to their Caucasian counterparts (Snowden et al, 1982;Takada, Fort, & Lloyd, 1998). Existing research, however, has largely considered Asian Americans as one monolithic group that has been faring better than the general population, rather than as separate and unique groups with their own healthcare needs.…”

Section: Abstract Asian Americans Access To Healthcare Health Litermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, the existing national data sets are unrepresentative of all Asian Americans (Takada et al, 1998). The sampling bias, in turn, perpetuates the myth of the well-adjusted Asian American.…”

Section: Diversity Among Asian Americans and Its Research Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although unemployment rates among Asian Americans are relatively low, many Asian Americans do not have health insurance. This is because many Asian Americans work for small businesses or have multiple low-wage jobs, which typically do not offer health insurance (Takada et al, 1998). In fact, whereas approximately 26% of all Americans are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance, only 6% of Asian Americans are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007).…”

Section: Health Insurancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Barriers to Healthcare Among Asian Americans

Kim

Keefe

2010

Social Work in Public Health

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Section: Diversity Among Asian Americans and Its Research Implicationsmentioning

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Barriers to Healthcare Among Asian Americans

Kim

Keefe

2010

Social Work in Public Health

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“…There are severe gaps in our knowledge of the health needs of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and of the illnesses from which they suffer, because of the lack of group-or ethnicity-specific data. 2,3 For example, Vietnamese women have the highest rate of cervical cancer among women of all racial and ethnic categories. 4 Also, standards for the detection of diseases have not been developed for the various ethnic subgroups of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, which leads to inadequate health care services.…”

Section: Diagnosis and Detection Of Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward improved health: disaggregating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander data

Srinivasan

Guillermo²

2000

Am J Public Health

212

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Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities realize the political importance of the revised standards of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Directive 15, which requests and classifies information on specific ethnic categories. These counts or numbers by racial category provide crucial information to groups that lobby for resources for redistricting and policy development. The perspectives and methods used for conducting studies on these ethnic groups and on the data collected, besides having far-reaching policy implications, have as a goal providing communities with information critical to serving their health needs. The revised OMB Directive 15 is making a first step toward achieving this goal. This commentary highlights the areas of "invisibility" of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, thereby pointing to the need for disaggregating the racial data for public health. The "Invisibility" of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians/Pacific IslandersAsian Americans and Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islanders have to a large degree been "invisible" in public health debates and their interests disregarded in immigration law and practices, and these factors have obscured our understanding of the sociocultural and ecopolitical factors that influence their health and quality of life. We will focus on a few areas that illustrate this invisibility: the concepts of health and health care, the diagnosis and detection of diseases, treatment and dosage levels, social histories, and, finally, immigration laws and practices.

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“…Some studies have combined all Asian American populations in a single category, reaching an overarching conclusion of ''healthy Asian American babies'' (Shiono et al 1986). Given the fact that these Asian sub-groups are heterogeneous in terms of culture, language, economic status, and/or immigration history, separate analyses of specific Asian American groups should be conducted whenever possible (Chen & Hawks 1995;Takada et al 1998;Yu & Liu 1992).…”

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Adverse birth outcomes among Korean Americans: The impactof nativity and social proximity to other Koreans

Cho

Song

parkerfrisbie

2005

Popul Res Policy Rev

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In the past two decades, the size of the Korean American population has notably increased. Despite this, there has been little research on the perinatal health of this population. This paper examines which and to what extent maternal risk factors are associated with birth outcomes (prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation [IUGR]) among Korean Americans, particularly focusing on maternal nativity and residential proximity to other Koreans. The authors employ the National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth/Infant Death Files for 1995-1997, pooled and linked with contextual information obtained from the 2000 Census Summary File 1 for seven selected states. Major findings, based on multinomial logistic regression models, suggest that maternal educational attainments and the status of prenatal care are strong predictors of adverse birth outcomes among this population. Although descriptive analysis indicates an elevated risk of adverse birth among U.S.-born Korean women, compared to their foreign-born counterparts, the control of prenatal care eliminates the effect of maternal nativity. Social proximity to co-ethnics, measured by the population size of Koreans in counties, has little influence on birth outcomes among Korean Americans.

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Asian Pacific Islander Health

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

Barriers to Healthcare Among Asian Americans

Barriers to Healthcare Among Asian Americans

Toward improved health: disaggregating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander data

Adverse birth outcomes among Korean Americans: The impactof nativity and social proximity to other Koreans

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