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Taking Action to Improve Asian American Health

American journal of public health (1971), 2020-04, Vol.110 (4), p.435-437 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright American Public Health Association Apr 2020 ;American Public Health Association 2020 2020 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305596 ;PMID: 32160000

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Title:
Taking Action to Improve Asian American Health
Author: Yi, Stella S
Subjects: Adult ; Asian Americans ; Asians ; California ; Cities ; Community ; Community Health ; Diabetes ; Editorials ; Epidemiology ; Ethnic factors ; Ethnic groups ; Filipino Americans ; Health care ; Health disparities ; Humans ; Income distribution ; Institutes ; Japan ; Low income groups ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Minority groups ; Other Race/Ethnicity ; Other Statistics/Evaluation/Research ; Overweight ; Population ; Poverty ; Public health ; Public Health Practice ; Republic of Korea ; Research methodology ; Social services ; Vietnam
Is Part Of: American journal of public health (1971), 2020-04, Vol.110 (4), p.435-437
Description: In my experience as a health equity researcher, it has become evident that the terms health disparities and Asian American do not go hand-in-hand in popular thought. I am routinely met with skepticism when describing low-income Asian American communities or the poor health status, health care use, or health outcomes for these communities. My work, however, is guided by data. Specifically, Asian Americans* Have the highest poverty rate of all racial/ethnic minority groups in New York City,1* Constitute 15% of the New York City population yet were awarded 1.4% of New York City-based agency contracts to social services providers in the past 13 years,2 and* Are the most understudied racial/ethnic group in the peer-reviewed literature (6% of US population; 0.01% of MEDLINE articles).3Furthermore, research including Asian American participants is critically underfunded by the National Institutes of Health (less than 0.17% of the total National Institutes of Health budget).4 To put it bluntly, Asian Americans are simply not a part of the collective consciousness of public health researchers and practitioners either as a community of color oras a population that experiences health disparities.
Publisher: United States: American Public Health Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0090-0036
EISSN: 1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305596
PMID: 32160000
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Taking Action to Improve Asian American Health

Copyright American Public Health Association Apr 2020 ;American Public Health Association 2020 2020 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305596 ;PMID: 32160000

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