Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Elders: What Gerontologists Should Know.

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 ...

Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Victims of Crime

Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders were victims of approximately 105,000 nonfatal violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, aggravated assault, and simple assault) on average per year between 2002 and 2006. An average of about 471,000 property crimes (household burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft) were committed against Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander hous...

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...

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...

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