Advancing Best Practices in Behavioral Health for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Boys and Men

Special Section: Cancer in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the US, representing 6.3% of the population (20.0 million/318.7 million) in 2014.1 In contrast to Hispanics, the rapid growth of the Asian American population is driven by immigration as opposed to native births.2 The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) population (1.5 million) is also among the fastestgrowing groups.1, 3 Th...

Asian and Pacific Islander childhood vaccination coverage: National Immunization Survey, 2002-2004.

OBJECTIVE Public health data on Asian/Pacific Islanders are most often collected and reported as one aggregated group. This aggregation of data can mask potential differences among the many ethnic/national/cultural groups classified as Asian/Pacific Islanders. We used data from the National Immunization Survey (NIS) to examine immunization status for all US children and four mutually exclusive ...

Selected Health Conditions Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Adults: United States, 2014.

KEY FINDINGS Although the Asian or Pacific Islander federal race category was split into two in 1997 (1), few reliable health statistics are available for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) population. In 2014, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) fielded a first-of-its-kind federal survey focused exclusively on NHPI population health. This report uses data from that su...

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

Cancer research in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations: accelerating cancer knowledge by acknowledging and leveraging heterogeneity.

The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population is large, growing, and extremely heterogeneous. Not only do they bear unique burdens of incidence and outcomes for certain cancer types, they exhibit substantial variability in cancer incidence and survival patterns across the ethnic groups. By acknowledging and leveraging this heterogeneity through investing in cancer researc...