Preface
Section I: Ethnicity and Health
Chapter 1 Ethnicity and Health by Fang Gong and David T. Takeuchi
Chapter 2 Critical Issues Impacting Asian Indian Americans by Ranjita Misra
Chapter 3 Chinese Americans and Health: The Impact of Culture on Disease Prevention and Managementby Angela Sun
Chapter 4 The Health of Filipino/a Americans: Challenges and Opportunities for Changeby Richard Sean Magbual and Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual,
Chapter 5 Japanese Americans: Current HealthIssues and Directions for Future Researchby Tazuko Shibusawa
Chapter 6 Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Health in the Korean AmericanCommunity by Grace J. Yoo and Sachiko Wood
Chapter 7 Social and Cultural Influences on the Health of the Vietnamese American PopulationVietnamese Americans by Mai Nhung Le and Tu-Uyen Nguyen
Chapter 8EmerginSouth Asian Americansand Healthby Shilpa Patel and Nadia Islam
Chapter 9 Southeast Asian American Health: Sociohistorical and Cultural Perspectives by Khatharya Um
Chapter 10 Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating UnchartedWaters by Cathy J. Tashiro
Section II: Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 11 Acculturation and Culture: A Critical Factor for Asian Americans' Health by Yijie Wang and Su Yeong Kim
Chapter 12 Asian Americans andRacism: Mental Health and Health Consequences by Alvin N. Alvarez and Jayoung Shin
Chapter 13 Asian Americans, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Current Findings and Future Concerns by Wei Zhang
Section III: Critical Health Issues Facing Asian Americans
Chapter 14 Perceptions and Culturally Responsive Care of Asian Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias by Linda A. Gerdner and Gwen Yeo
Chapter 15 Cancer: AnOngoing Rish for Asian American Communitiesby Giang T. Nguyen
Chapter 16 Heterogeneity in Cardiovascular Health among Asian American subgroups: Risk Factors, Outcomes, Treatment and Prevention, and Future Research Opportunities by Ariel T. Holland and Latha P. Palaniappan
Chapter 17 Diabetes: A Growing Concern in the Asian American Communityby Ranjita Misra
Chapter 18 Obesity and Asian Americans: Prevalence, Risk Factors, andFuture Research Directions by May C. Wang
Chapter 19 Hepatitis B and Asian Americansby Tung T. Nguyen, Vicky Taylor, Annette Maxwell, Moon S. Chen Jr., Roshan Bastani, and Susan Stewart
Chapter 20 Severe Mental Illness in Asian Americans: Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder by Russell F. Lim and Francis G. Liu
Chapter 21Asian AmericanViolence: Scope, Context, and Implicationsby Deborah A. Goebert, Thao N. Le, and Jeanelle J. Sugimoto-Matsuda
Section IV: Health Care Delivery
Chapter 22Falling through the Cracks: Models, Barriers, and the Future of Health Care Access for Asian Americans Access by Stephen Vong and Ricky Choi
Chapter 23Quality of Health Care for Asian Americans by Dara H Sorkin, Heather Ngai, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger
Chapter 24Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Asian Americans: Is IntegrativeMedicine the Ticket into the US Healthcare Systemby Isha Weerasinghe, Lixin Zhang, and Simona C. Kwon
Chapter 25A Passage to a Good Death: End of LifeCare for Asian Americans by Evaon Wong-Kim and Nancy J. Burke
Section V: Social Movements, Health and the Asian American Community
Chapter 26Early Chinese Immigrants Organizing for Healthcare: The Establishmentof the Chinese Hospital of San Francisco: by Laureen D. Hom
Chapter 27Lives Were Saved: The Asian American Donor Program by Jonathan Leong, Kira Donnell, and Emily Avera
Chapter 28HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States by Don Operario, Judy Tan, and Caroline Kuo
Chapter 29Evolution of an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Cancer Advocacy Movement: Heroes Among Us by Susan Matsuko Shinagawa and Alan Oda
Chapter 30The 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 Hepatitis B by Ted Fang and Jason Liu
About the Editors and Contributors
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