Asian American population and its characteristics
According to the Census Bureau, the Asian group in the United States counts 15.7 million Asian Americans in 2013 and represents about five percent of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans live mostly in large cities in states of California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and New Jersey. Asian American community is fast growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is expected to comprise over 10% of the population by the year 2050. The Asian population differs also in religions, traditions, educational backgrounds. About 60% of Asian-Americans were born in another country, and they speak at home a language other than English. That is why healthcare providers …show more content…
Historically, to achieve the American Dream the adult immigrants of Asian communities worked hard in order to provide financial support, so their kids would be able to get good education. As a result, “Asian Americans are now the country’s best-educated, highest-earning, and fastest-growing racial group. They share with American Jews both the distinction and the occasional burden of immigrant success.” (Wall Street Journal 2012). More than 50 percent of Asian Americans have at least a bachelor degree compare to 32.5 percent of the total non-Hispanic White population, while the median household income of this minority group is “higher than the national median income for non-Hispanic Whites.” (HHS, 2014). However, it would be wrong to assume that all Asian Americans are well educated, have good jobs and healthy. This is so-called Model Minority Myth. According to Le, we need to remember that not all Asian Americans are the same. For every Chinese American or South Asian who has a college degree, the same number of Southeast Asians are still struggling to adapt to their lives in the U.S. (Le, …show more content…
Asian patients are silent with strangers and do not often like to ask questions regarding their health status, treatment plan. They stay calm and stoic even experiencing pain and have poor eye contact with healtcare providers. This behavior, based on their cultures and traditions, healthcare providers may mistakenly consider as absence of pain, luck of interest from patient to his health status discussion.
As smoking and eating not healthy food are the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, nurses have to educate Asian patients to reduce the amount of salt and soy sauce in their cooking and quit smoking. The primary prevention with changing life style in order to adopt healthy behaviors like being physically active, following healthy diets, quitting of smoking can prevent the occurrence of heart diseases among Asian Americans.
Educating Asian women to do breast self-exam with scheduled mammograms, Pap smears tests can screen more women for detecting breast cancer and cervical cancer in their earlier stages. Because of the fact Asian women visit healthcare provider at their late cancer stages, the tertiary prevention is the key for comforting these patients during rehabilitation process with controlling
According to the Census Bureau, the Asian group in the United States counts 15.7 million Asian Americans in 2013 and represents about five percent of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans live mostly in large cities in states of California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and New Jersey. Asian American community is fast growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is expected to comprise over 10% of the population by the year 2050. The Asian population differs also in religions, traditions, educational backgrounds. About 60% of Asian-Americans were born in another country, and they speak at home a language other than English. That is why healthcare providers …show more content…
Historically, to achieve the American Dream the adult immigrants of Asian communities worked hard in order to provide financial support, so their kids would be able to get good education. As a result, “Asian Americans are now the country’s best-educated, highest-earning, and fastest-growing racial group. They share with American Jews both the distinction and the occasional burden of immigrant success.” (Wall Street Journal 2012). More than 50 percent of Asian Americans have at least a bachelor degree compare to 32.5 percent of the total non-Hispanic White population, while the median household income of this minority group is “higher than the national median income for non-Hispanic Whites.” (HHS, 2014). However, it would be wrong to assume that all Asian Americans are well educated, have good jobs and healthy. This is so-called Model Minority Myth. According to Le, we need to remember that not all Asian Americans are the same. For every Chinese American or South Asian who has a college degree, the same number of Southeast Asians are still struggling to adapt to their lives in the U.S. (Le, …show more content…
Asian patients are silent with strangers and do not often like to ask questions regarding their health status, treatment plan. They stay calm and stoic even experiencing pain and have poor eye contact with healtcare providers. This behavior, based on their cultures and traditions, healthcare providers may mistakenly consider as absence of pain, luck of interest from patient to his health status discussion.
As smoking and eating not healthy food are the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, nurses have to educate Asian patients to reduce the amount of salt and soy sauce in their cooking and quit smoking. The primary prevention with changing life style in order to adopt healthy behaviors like being physically active, following healthy diets, quitting of smoking can prevent the occurrence of heart diseases among Asian Americans.
Educating Asian women to do breast self-exam with scheduled mammograms, Pap smears tests can screen more women for detecting breast cancer and cervical cancer in their earlier stages. Because of the fact Asian women visit healthcare provider at their late cancer stages, the tertiary prevention is the key for comforting these patients during rehabilitation process with controlling