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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.”
A San Jose community org working to provide a wide array of health, mental health, and social justice services to the Asian American community of Santa Clara county. Programs include: domestic violence support, HIV/AIDS education, senior wellness.
“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
The Philadelphia New Routes project, "Media partnerships for community engagement in Southeast Asian health," was highlighted at a national conference in San Francisco, CA. The session, held on 7/24/2008, was entitled, "Increasing the Voice of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders through Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Community-Based Participatory Programs (CBPP)." This was part of a 3-day meeting, The Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Cancer Survivorship Conference: Dispelling Myths, Reducing Disparities & Providing Hope (APIA Health Forum and API National Cancer Survivors Network). 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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