Asian-American Health (Print Version)

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Asian-American Health

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/asianamericanhealth.html

Latest News

Betel Quid Linked to Head and Neck Cancers (10/19/2004, United Press International) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_20721.html (*this news item will not be available after 11/18/2004)
Millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at Increased Risk for Type 2 Diabetes (09/29/2004, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) - http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2004/niddk-29a.htm

Related Issues

Asian & Pacific Islander Donors Can Save Lives (National Marrow Donor Program) - http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/api_english.html
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and Lung Disease (American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b;=36054
Asian/Pacific Islander Americans and Substance Abuse (National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information) - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/prevalert/v5/3.aspx
Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/asianamerican/index.htm
Medicare Savings Programs for Asian American/Pacific Islander Beneficiaries (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) - Links to PDF File - http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10126_AP.pdf
Responsible Dialogue Campaign: Asian Parent's Guide to Talking with Your Kids about Health and Sex (National Asian Women's Health Organization) - http://nawho.wego.net/?cbr_v=dcb&nt;=true&cbr;_eid=10289&p;=admin&ct;=contentbrowser
Take Care of Your Heart. Manage Your Diabetes: Blood Glucose, Blood Pressure, and Cholesterol (National Diabetes Education Program) - http://www.ndep.nih.gov/campaigns/TCH/TCH_materials_AsianAm.htm

Research

Fat Content Inside the Abdomen Helps Predict Whether Japanese Americans Develop Hypertension (American College of Physicians) - http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/140/12/I-17

Organizations

Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum - http://www.apiahf.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health - http://www.cdc.gov/omh/
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities - http://ncmhd.nih.gov/
Office of Minority Health Resource Center (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health) - http://www.omhrc.gov/

Statistics

Asian American Populations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/AsianAm/AsianAm.htm
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Tobacco (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-asi.htm
Asian/Pacific Islanders and Cardiovascular Diseases (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File - http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1075706941602FS03AS04.pdf
Cancer Health Disparities (National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/healthdisparities
Leading Causes of Death for Women in the United States, 2000 (National Women's Health Information Center) - http://www.4woman.gov/minority/leading.htm
Mental Health and Depression in Asian Americans (National Asian Women's Health Organization) - Links to PDF File - http://nawho.wego.net/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/9950/conman/Mental+Health+Fact+Sheet.pdf
Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) Populations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health) - http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/NHOPI/NHOPI.htm
Racial / Ethnic Health Disparities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/fs040402.htm
State Fact Sheets about Heart Disease among Men (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) - http://www.cdc.gov/cvh/maps/cvdatlas/atlas_mens/factsheets_mens/index.htm
State Fact Sheets about Heart Disease among Women (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) - http://www.cdc.gov/cvh/maps/cvdatlas/atlas_womens/factsheets_womens/index.htm

Women

Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Guide for Asian Women Aged 50 and Older (Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases-National Resource Center) - http://www.osteo.org/newfile.asp?doc=r901i&doctitle;=Bone+Health+and+Osteoporosis%3A+A+Guide+for+Asian+Women+Aged+50+and+Older&doctype;=HTML+Fact+Sheet
Get a Mammogram: Do It for Yourself, Do It for Your Family (National Cancer Institute) - Links to PDF File - http://cancer.gov/images/Documents/68432989-7c99-4e56-8352-c813d5ef3422/english.pdf
Health Problems in Asian American/Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian Women (National Women's Health Information Center) - http://www.4woman.gov/minority/asian.htm
HIV/AIDS among US Women: Minority and Young Women at Continuing Risk (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/women.htm
Also available in Spanish - http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/vih/pubs/facts/s_women.htm
Osteoporosis and Asian American Women (Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases-National Resource Center) - http://www.osteo.org/newfile.asp?doc=r601i&doctitle;=Osteoporosis+and+Asian+American+Women&doctype;=HTML+Fact+Sheet

Children

Kawasaki Disease (Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/heart/kawasaki.html

Other Languages

Get a Mammogram: Do It for Yourself, Do It for Your Family (National Cancer Institute) - Links to PDF File - In Vietnamese - http://cancer.gov/images/Documents/68432989-7c99-4e56-8352-c813d5ef3422/Vietnamese2.pdf
Get a Mammogram: Do It for Yourself, Do It for Your Family (National Cancer Institute) - Links to PDF File - In Tagalog - http://cancer.gov/images/Documents/68432989-7c99-4e56-8352-c813d5ef3422/tagalog_brochure.pdf
Get a Mammogram: Do It for Yourself, Do It for Your Family (National Cancer Institute) - Links to PDF File - In Chinese - http://cancer.gov/images/Documents/68432989-7c99-4e56-8352-c813d5ef3422/ChineseBroch2.pdf
Hmong Health Website (Hmong Health Information Promotion) - In Hmong - http://www.hmonghealth.org/

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:

Population Groups - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html

The primary NIH organization for research on Asian-American Health is the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities - http://ncmhd.nih.gov/

Page last updated: 03 November 2004
Topic last reviewed: 21 October 2004