Summary: Health Promotion Among Asian Americans

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Health Promotion Among Asian Americans Asian American as a group is defined as people from approximately 52 different Asian countries from the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. There are 15.5 million Asian Americans currently in the United States. They are considered to be 5.0 percent of the nation’s current population. As a very fast growing ethnicity in USA, they are estimated to be around 33.4 million Asian Americans living in this country by the year 2050(AAHI, 2005). However, as the Asian American community consists of many different nations and cultures in itself, it has some very unique and diverse characteristics. This diverse nature of the population and many underlying risk factors make it challenging to develop effective outreach …show more content…

Language and cultural barriers are the major problems for Asian Americans in the health care context. Our understanding of this issue and its effects are limited by the lack of sufficient administrative data. Asian Americans are classified as a single body, rather than as differentiated groups We need more consistent efforts at data collection by national origin when it comes to health outcomes to better understand this issue. As immigrants, Asian Americans are subject to many barriers to accessing health care. Out of all barriers, financial, cultural, communication, and physical were the most often reported. Many Asian Americans wait till there is visible symptoms to visit the doctor. Preventive care is not a normal practice for Asian …show more content…

To decrease the risks of obtaining a disease before it occurs a proactive approach through health promotion and health education should be initiated through primary and secondary levels of Health promotion.

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Department Health and Human services, Maryland, “Asian American Health Initiative” (2005), available at http://www.aahiinfo.org/english/asianAmericans.php
Edelman, C., & Mandle, C. L. (2010). Health promotion throughout the life span (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Ramakrishnan, K., & Ahmad, Z. F. (2014). Health Care and Health Outcomes Part of the “State of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders”,[online]https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AAPI-Health3-3.pdf(accessed 4/12/16)

United State Census Bureau,” The Asian Population 2010” [online]http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-11.pdf

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