This section of the seminar is an “Informatic Sheet” providing current data and information on health disparities and culturally competent care for Asian American and Pacific Islanders. The sheet focuses on six areas of urgent health disparity: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, immunizations, and infant mortality. It is intended to contribute to improving the health care provided for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and to reducing their disparities in health status and outcomes. Its content was reviewed and vetted by a panel of experts and practitioners. [Read more]

How to access information in this section This Informatic Sheet is a pdf file with linked sections that allow you to quickly search and print sections of the sheet. We encourage you to access the information provided in whatever order best suits your needs. You may print out the entire Informatic Sheet, a section, or even an individual page. You will note that this format has required us to build some redundancy into the information provided. For example, some of the “Adherence Factors” information provided in the Overview is repeated under the specific health areas, as relevant.   American Indians & Alaska Natives Asian American & Pacific Islanders Hispanics/Latinos

This sheet was developed using data and information from many government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, including the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Council, National Center for Health Statistics, Office on Women’s Health, US Census Bureau, and US Department of Health and Human Services. The references and resources provide a detailed list of citations, many with links to Web pages providing further information.

Please note that the Informatic Sheet concentrates on five major sub-groups of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders living in the United States: Chinese, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders. We appreciate your understanding and tolerance for our need to focus on these sub-groups and use categories to organize the material. If you feel that we have misrepresented a group in any way, please let us know. We will take your comments and suggestions into consideration as we improve and periodically update this Web site.

In addition, it is vital for health care providers to remember that each individual has a unique personal history, belief system, communication style, and health status. What may be true about some or most individuals from a particular culture may not be true of all individuals from that culture.