Special Issue on Asian American, Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions

Implementation Research and Asian American/Pacific Islander Health

Numerous barriers prevent the translation of research into practice, especially in settings with diverse populations. Nurses are in contact with diverse populations across settings and can be an important influence to further implementation research. This paper describes conceptual approaches and methodological issues pertinent to implementation research and implications for Asian American/Paci...

Blood Mercury Reporting in NHANES: Identifying Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and Multiracial Groups

INTRODUCTION Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methylmercury through fish consumption. However, blood mercury levels in this group have not been identified in recent reports of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the years 1999-2002. METHODS We used NHANES data from 1999-2002 to obtain popula...

Cultures, collaboratives, and capabilities: the richness of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander CBPR.

Improving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander health: national organizations leading community research initiatives.

BACKGROUND Functionally, many CBPR projects operate through a model of academic partners providing research expertise and community partners playing a supporting role. OBJECTIVES To demonstrate how national umbrella organizations deeply rooted in communities, cognizant of community needs, and drawing on the insights and assets of community partners, can lead efforts to address health disparit...

Environmental influences on tobacco use among Asian American and Pacific Islander youth.

There is growing interest in understanding individual and environmental influences on youth risk behaviors, including tobacco use. The purpose of this article is to describe the processes and findings from a study that sought to increase the capacity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community-based organizations to understand and address the environmental influences on tobacco use ...