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Handbook of Asian American Health

As a rapidly growing population, America’s Asian community is gaining increased attention from the research and policy sectors. This large, diverse group tends to be viewed as a single entity, yet its subgroups reveal great variety in terms of health, from disease rates and mortality rates to attitu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Yoo, Grace J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Le, Mai-Nhung. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Oda, Alan Y. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Public health.
Sociology, general.
Public Health.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3
Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Ethnicity and Health
  • Chapter 1 Ethnicity and Health by Fang Gong and David Takeuchi
  • Chapter 2 Asian Indians by Ranjita Misra
  • Chapter 3 Chinese Americans by Angela Sun
  • Chapter 4 Filipino Americans by Richard Sean Magbual and Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual
  • Chapter 5 Japanese Americans by Tazuko Shibusawa
  • Chapter 6 Korean Americans by Grace J. Yoo and Sachiko Wood
  • Chapter 7 Vietnamese Americans by Mai Nhung Le and Tu-Uyen Nguyen
  • Chapter 8 South Asian Americans by Shilpa Patel and Nadia Islam
  • Chapter 9 Southeast Asian American by Khatharya Um
  • Chapter 10 Mixed Asian Americans by Cathy J. Tashiro
  • Section II: Social Determinants of Health
  • Chapter 11 Acculturation, Culture and Health by Yijie Wang and Su Yeong Kim
  • Chapter 12 Racism: Mental Health and Health Consequences by Alvin N. Alvarez and Jayoung Shin
  • Chapter 13 Socioeconomic Status and Health by Wei Zhang.-Section III: Critical Health Issues Facing Asian Americans
  • Chapter 14 Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias by Linda A. Gerdner and Gwen Yeo
  • Chapter 15 Cancer by Giang T. Nguyen
  • Chapter 16 Cardiovascular Health by Ariel T. Holland and Latha P. Palaniappan
  • Chapter 17 Diabetes by Ranjita Misra.-Chapter 18 Obesity by May C. Wang
  • Chapter 19 Hepatitis B by Tung T. Nguyen, Vicky Taylor, Annette Maxwell, Moon S. Chen Jr., Roshan Bastani, and Susan Stewart
  • Chapter 20 Severe Mental Illness by Russell F. Lim and Francis G. Liu
  • Chapter 21 Violence by Deborah A. Goebert, Thao N. Le, and Jeanelle J. Sugimoto-Matsuda
  • Section IV: Health Care Delivery
  • Chapter 22 Health Care Access by Stephen Vong and Ricky Choi
  • Chapter 23 Quality of Health Care for Asian Americans by Dara H Sorkin, Heather Ngai, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger
  • Chapter 24 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Asian Americans by Isha Weerasinghe, Lixin Zhang, and Simona C. Kwon
  • Chapter 25 Asian Americans and End of Life Care by Evaon Wong-Kim and Nancy J.Burke.-V: Social Movements, Health and the Asian American Community
  • Chapter 26 The Chinese Hospital of San Francisco: How the Early San Francisco Chinese Mobilized to Build the Chinatown Community by Laureen D. Hom
  • Chapter 27 Lives Were Saved: The Asian American Donor Program by Jonathan Leong, Kira Donnell, and Emily Avera
  • Chapter 28 HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States by Don Operario, Judy Tan, and Caroline Kuo.-Chapter 29 Evolution of an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Cancer Advocacy Movement: Heroes Among Us by Susan Matsuko Shinagawa and Alan Oda
  • Chapter 30 The Versailles Social Movement and Implications for Asian American Environmental Health in Post- Katrina New Orleans by Maureen Lichtveld and Vy Dao
  • Chapter 31 The Role of Asian Americans in Ending Hep B Disease by Ted Fang and Jason Liu.

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