A Concentrated Effort

Autor/in	Lum, Lydia
Titel	A Concentrated Effort
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 27 (2010) 19, S.12-13 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	Medical Education; Public Health; Asian Americans; Disproportionate Representation; Ethnic Groups; Health Personnel; Health Promotion; Communicable Diseases; Cancer; Preventive Medicine; Disease Control; Epidemiology; Screening Tests; New York; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinische Ausbildung; Gesundheitswesen; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Ethnie; Medizinisches Personal; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Gesundheitsvorsorge; Epidemiologie; Screening-Verfahren
Abstract	For years, New York health-care providers have treated Asian-Americans afflicted by serious, even life-threatening illnesses with ever-increasing frequency. Many doctors in the nation's largest city agreed that Asians seemed particularly at risk for specific health problems, but there was neither research nor statistics supporting physician observations. In this article, the author describes a pioneering center at New York University that employs a community-based approach to addressing illnesses disproportionately affecting Asian-Americans. Established in 2003, the Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) is the only center of its kind at a U.S. academic medical center dedicated solely to evaluating public health issues of this racial group. Soon after CSAAH's inception, which was financed by a National Institutes of Health grant, its scientific efforts began exploring the relationship between viral and bacterial infections and cancer, as well as the risk for cardiovascular disease, among different Asian ethnic groups. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10