Though often considered a “model minority,” Asian immigrants pose significant challenges for Western health care providers, including radically different ideas of disease causation, differing communication styles, and somatic presentations of mental illness. Asian diversity is tremendous, but several cultural trends are held in common: strong family structures, respect, adaptability, and, for f...

A theme throughout the research on college students and higher education discourse on race is that Asian Americans 1 are an understudied group (Hune & Chan, 1997). Furthermore, the understanding of leadership for this population is limited because few studies have One reason underlying the absence of attention toward Asian American leadership might be due to stereotypes that Asian Americans are...

Background There has been growing incidence of depression, suicide, substance use, and sexually transmitted infections among Asian-American women. However, they are reluctant to seek health and mental health services. There is scant empirical research focused on potential barriers to health-care utilization among Asian-American women. The present paper contributes to the literature by providing...

PROBLEM Considerable progress in Asian American health research has occurred over the last two decades. However, greater and sustained federal support is needed for reducing health disparities in Asian American communities. PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE: This paper reviews federal policies that support infrastructure to conduct minority health research and highlights one model for strengthening resear...

The influence of the analytical properties of the Black-Scholes PDE formulation for American and Asian options on the quality of the numerical solution is discussed. It appears that numerical methods for PDEs are quite robust even when the mathematical formulation is not well posed.

millions of people in underdeveloped countries, have assumed poverty as a principal of life in globalization age. in comparison with advanced countries, asian, african and latin american countries are characterized as poor societies. lack of equally access to economic and social opportunities, low level of life, economic stagnation, political instability, and such factors are taken into account...

Asian Americans are not frequently thought of as being obese or overweight yet some of the Asian American subgroups have a disproportionate risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Although the standardized body mass index (BMI) assessment is an adequate tool for reporting secular prevalence trends for overweight/obesity across populations, it falls short in accuracy when a...

Child sexual abuse affects thousands of families each year. Issues pertaining to the prevalence, identifi cation, and treatment of sexual abuse have been relatively well explored in the literature as they pertain to the dominant European American culture. These issues, however, are still relatively unexplored in terms of how sexual abuse affects Asian American families and the Asian American co...