Asian American Patients Research Articles

Health care strategies for Asian American patients.

The health status of Asian Americans is at risk because the existing health care delivery system is unable to provide ethnic-sensitive health care services. This condition is attributed to the changing policies and practices of the health care system of the past decades. Thus it is argued that health care providers must become more knowledgeable about the specific health needs of Asian Americans.

Life strengths and life stresses: explorations in the measurement of the mental health of the Black aged.

A study of Asian American patients receiving care in community mental health facilities suggests that rates of psychopathology among Asain Americans have been underestimated and that treatment facilities are not responding to the needs of this group.