Handbook of Asian American Health

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yoo, Grace J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Le, Mai-Nhung (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Oda, Alan Y. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Public health.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Public 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.