A new blog from the Immigration Policy Center to check out.
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Penn State University Dickinson School of Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights will host its first immigration symposium. The theme of this day-long symposium is “Immigration in a New Administration.”
The Vilcek Foundation showcases the work of immigrant filmmakers in NYC November 12-18, 2008. Visit their website to RSVP for the screenings. Or click on their Web site for film trailers for the works by first time and well-known makers from China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Samoa, and Pakistan.
“Some of the CDC
officials who supported a recommendation for young women in the U.S. to
receive the human papillomavirus vaccine said they did not intend for
it to lead to an immigration policy requiring young immigrant women to
receive the vaccine, the Wall Street Journal reports (Jordan, Wall Street Journal, 10/1).” (Source: Kaisernetwork.org)
Tags: immunizations, Vaccinations
Topics: Community Health, Health Care, Immigrants, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Public Health, Refugees, Youth
Topics: Community Health, Health Care, Immigrants, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Public Health, Refugees, Youth
Vietnamese Americans who came to the United States as political refugees are suffering from higher rates of mental health problems than non-Latino whites, an indication that many Vietnamese Americans are experiencing lingering effects from the Vietnam War, according to a UC Irvine Center for Health Care Policy study.
In the first analysis of its kind for Vietnamese Americans in California, researchers found that Vietnamese Americans over 55 were twice as likely as whites to report needing mental health care, but were less likely to discuss such issues with their doctors.
"The message I want to bring across is that the medical community needs to realize that Vietnamese Americans are a high-risk group," said Dr. Read More
Groups are finding culturally sensitive ways to give health care advice to clients with different values and traditions. Read More
On March 26, 2008, the Philadelphia New Routes team officially launched the Media Partnerships for Community Engagement in Southeast Asian Health at WHYY TV12 studio. Read More
The day-long event featured three concurrent sessions on Identity, Health, and Activism. The keynote speaker was UW Prof. Michael Thornton, director of Morgridge Center and professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology. Read More
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