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COVID-19, Health Equity, and the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
COVID-19, Health Equity, and the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Members of 2-day public workshop titled COVID-19, Health Equity, these communities report a heightened fear of slurs and and the Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native physical assaults on top of the already present anxiety of Communities. The workshop focused on the impact of living through the pandemic, said Wong.
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Koh noted that "in our public advance equity for all, we must address equity in every health discussions, when there's no data, too many population, including AANHPI populations." assume there's no problem." TOWARD HEALING AND HEALTH EQUITY FOR ASIAN Other health disparities also affect the AANHPI AMERICANS, NATIVE HAWAIIANS, AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS community, such as chronic viral hepatitis, Keynote speaker Howard Koh of the Harvard T.H. Chan cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes risk that can School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School be greater for at least some AANHPI subgroups.
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The new character represents "a small but hopeful sign," Koh concluded. A second concept explained by Islam is that Asian Americans are "perpetual foreigners." Members of the The discussion included a question about how data AANHPI community are perceived as not belonging in are tracked regarding hate crimes targeting the NHPI the United States, which is the basis for legislation such communities.
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Morey closed by offering the following suggestions for improving the health and well-being of AANHPI The Refugee Act of 1980 led to an increase in refugees individuals: from Vietnam and Cambodia. However, Asian Americans, even those born in the United States, continue to • Disaggregating health and demographic data for all experience racism and xenophobia.
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One shortcoming of the report was the lack of THE CONUNDRUM OF DATA AND DATA DISAGGREGATION information on the strengths and resiliencies of the The day's final panel featured three speakers who Native Hawaiian population. A second report was discussed the nuances and complexities of disaggregating commissioned, E Ola Mau: The Native Hawaiians Health data for the AANHPI community.
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First, sometimes the data are High numbers of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders unavailable; local, state, and federal agencies do not also reported experiencing microaggressions or everyday provide them. Second, sometimes the data are inaccurate acts of discrimination, including "having people ask or not up to date and therefore do not paint an accurate where you are from, assuming you're not from the U.S." picture of the NHPI communities.
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he explained. "We cannot assume an English language term is interchangeable when translated into different The discussion began with Ramakrishnan describing Asian group languages and assume the terms are sound his work on the California Commission on Asian and and measurable." Pacific Islander Affairs.
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Zia is the Chinese American daughter of Suicide is a leading cause of death for Asian American immigrants, and she noted that once SARS-CoV-2 was Pacific Islander youth aged 15–20 years, and juxtaposed identified in China, it took several months to reach the with this, they are less likely to have ever received mental United States. Even before it did so, however, Asian health treatment.
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Martin Luther King envisioned." data are important, they cannot be divorced from the human impact on daily life. She also spoke of the RACE, COVID-19, AND OUTCOMES FOR AANHPI COMMUNITIES importance of knowledge production and dissemination, The second day of the workshop featured two speakers including storytelling, in the Pacific Islander community.
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"We definitely need by continued colonization and militarization," Samuelu to start being more sophisticated," he said, "as we have said. the ability now to collect data about these things." He went on to say that "there are intentional actions that Regarding COVID-19, Samuelu said that the reason many are occurring consistently to suppress Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders did not seek out health care was a lack Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans in the U.S." of insurance coverage.
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of many allies of the AANHPI community who were surprised by it, Discussing the disproportional effects of the pandemic • The educational and economic impacts, and on the NHPI communities, Samuelu said that resources • The more than 170,000 young people who have lost a often miss Pacific Islander communities. She said that parent or primary caretaker.
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"We had to give them a rundown of discussions about shared topics of interest. One recent who is a Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and what our conversation focused on reparations and the ability of health issues are and explain why we are deserving of the Japanese American community to bring its leaders health equity," she noted.
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2021. One size does not fit all: Similarly, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks affected Appreciating the diversity of Asian Americans, Native several refugee communities, such as Southeast Asians, Hawaiians, and Pacific islanders (AANHPIs)
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