The Cultural Link

May 2007

 Published by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Division of Health Sciences, East Tennessee State University

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Emergency Medical Services
 
High Blood Pressure
 
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
 
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Article of the Month
 
Did You Know?
 

 

Cultural & Health Awareness Observances

 
May References
 
Contact us

Send comments or suggestions to Nwosu@etsu.edu

For assistance with references: Elaine Evans, Reference Assistant, COM Library

 
 

Asian American/Pacific Islander
Heritage Month

   Question of the Month


The Asian American and Pacific Islander population is the most diverse ethnic group in the country. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the cultures, languages and experiences of more than 47 ethnic groups from Asia and the Pacific Islands. 


Why are Asian immigrants rather than US born Asians at much higher risk of this link between Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer? High Chronic Hepatitis B Rates Put Asians at Risk of Liver Cancer


This brief report on the immigration history of this very diverse group of Americans reveals that some groups faced severe obstacles after their immigration to the US.  Asian-American History
 
Emergency Medical Services Week - May 20 - 26 

Researching Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Medicine - Why do the authors of this article differ from the Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment?  They support more research to ascertain the existence of health disparities in emergency medical care. 

Ethnicity and analgesic practice.  This study of emergency department patients with bone fractures looked as whether race could have impacted their non-receipt of analgesics.  
 

Why are Asian Americans said to represent both extremes of socioeconomic and health indices?

Email your answer to <nwosu@etsu.edu> by 4:30 PM May 7.  As always, the answer is in a link found in the current newsletter. A prize is awarded to one winner, selected at random among those who submit the correct answer.

 

Answer to the March-April Question:  In an 8-year longitudinal study of women who did not have diabetes found that those who drank more sugar sweetened soft drinks or fruit punch (1 or more per day) increased their risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and gained more  weight during the period than women who consumed less soft drinks or fruit punch (> 1 per month).   Sugar-sweetened Beverages, Weight Gain and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Young and Middle Aged Women.


High Blood Pressure Month                    		   Teen Pregnancy Month

 In this ongoing study, cardiologists are tracking a racially diverse population to determine racial and ethnic factors in development of risk factors for heart failure.  Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Play a Greater Role Than Race in Determining Who Will Develop Heart Failure


 Factors associated with high blood pressure include race, socioeconomic status, and region of the country.  High Blood Pressure Causes

 

A study of lay beliefs about hypertension in an African-American community found many differences from the medical concept of the disease, with one of the major points of divergence being the lay understanding of hypertension as an episodic symptomatic illness. What does this finding indicate for providers? Lay beliefs about high blood pressure in a low- to middle -income urban African-American community: an opportunity for improving hypertension control

  

 This study of how black and white adolescents make contraceptive choices, and  offers insight on how to help them avoid unintended pregnancies. Race, Adolescent Contraceptive Choice, and Pregnancy at Presentation to a Family Planning Clinic.

Teen sexual activity, contraceptive use, pregnancy and childbearing facts and stats  Teenage pregnancy rates in the US have declined dramatically, but still rates vary among the three largest racial and ethnic groups. What are the trends and why are teen pregnancies declining?

 


 

 

 
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