Table
of Contents
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Figures and Tables |
vii |
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Foreword Albert
K. Yee |
xiii |
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The Editors |
xvii |
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The Contributors |
xxi |
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Acknowledgments |
xxxvii |
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PART
ONE |
SETTING
THE CONTEXT: ASIAN AMERICANS
AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN THE UNITED STATES |
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One |
Toward a Contextual Understanding of
Asian American Health Nadia
Shilpi
Islam, Chau
Trinh-Shevrin
and Mariano Jose Rey |
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Two |
Social, Demographic, and Cultural
Characteristics of Asian Americans Winston Tseng |
23 |
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Three |
Social, Demographic, and Cultural
Characteristics of |
50 |
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Four |
Asian American Health Research: Baseline Data and Funding Chandak Ghosh |
73 |
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PART
TWO |
PERSPECTIVES: HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN AND
SPECIAL POPULATIONS |
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Five |
The Health of Children and
Adolescents Stella M. Yu and Amita N. Vyas |
107 |
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Six |
The Health of Women |
132 |
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Seven |
The Health of Men John H.
Choe |
162 |
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Eight |
The Health of the
Elderly Tazuko
Shibusawa and Irene Chung |
199 |
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Nine |
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer, and Questioning People Sel J. Hwahng
and Alison J. Lin |
226 |
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PART
THREE |
FROM
THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE INSTITUTIONAL: CRITICAL
FACTORS INFLUENCING HEALTH DISPARITIES |
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Ten |
Complementary and Alternative
Medicines Darshan Mehta and Ellen McCarthy |
285 |
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Eleven |
Language Access Marguerite Ro, Jinny |
323 |
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Twelve |
Health Insurance Ninez A.
Ponce |
344 |
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Thirteen |
Chapter Thirteen: Racism and
Discrimination Gilbert
C. Gee and Annie Ro |
364 |
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Fourteen |
Occupational and Environmental
Health Pamela Tau
Lee |
403 |
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PART
FOUR |
BUILDING
THE FOUNDATION FOR ACTION: COMMUNITY-BASED
RESEARCH |
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Fifteen |
Health
Interventions Grace X. Ma and Gem P. Daus |
443 |
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Sixteen |
Community-Based Participatory
Research S. Darius Tandon
and Simona
C. Kwon |
464 |
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Seventeen |
Promoting Community-Based
Participatory Research at the Institutional Level Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Nadia Shilpi
Islam and Mariano Jose Rey |
504 |
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Eighteen |
Multicultural Evaluation: a Paradigm Shift to Promote Asian
American Health Traci
Endo Tnouye |
531 |
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PART
FIVE |
COLLABORATIVE
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING HEALTH |
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Nineteen |
Workforce Marguerite Ro |
549 |
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Twenty |
Community Health
Centers Thomas Tsang,
Kevin C. Lo and Jeffrey
Caballero |
567 |
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Twenty-One |
Health Policy
Advocacy Deeana Jang and Ho Luong Tran |
589 |
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PART
SIX |
EMERGING
HEALTH ISSUES AND RESEARCH PRIORITIES |
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Twenty-Two |
Disability Peter J.
Wong and Lois M. Takahashi |
613 |
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Twenty-Three |
Oral Health Kavita P.
Ahluwalia |
619 |
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Twenty-Four |
Gambling Addiction Timothy W.
Fong |
627 |
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Twenty-Five |
Genetic Testing and
Profiling Joon-Ho Yu |
632 |
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Afterword |
The
Reciprocity of Time David T.
Takeuchi and Margie Kagawa Singer |
639 |
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Index |
641 |
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