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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Progress of Hmong Americans: The First Twenty-Five Years [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2021
Hmong refugees from remote highlands in Laos resettled in the U.S. starting in 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. This study uses Census microdata to explore measures of economic progress of Hmong Americans in the first twenty-five years after ...
Wayne Carroll
doaj  

The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses

open access: yes, 2017
Whether framed as model minorities or used as evidence that the model minority is a myth, Hmong Americans and other Southeast Asians are constrained by the model minority stereotype.
Stacey J. Lee   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hmong American Leadership and Unity in the Post-Vang Pao Era [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2015
The passing of General Vang Pao (GVP) in a hospital in Clovis, California, in 2011 ended an historical era for Hmong Americans and the larger Hmong diaspora. This historical essay explores the changing meanings of leadership and unity for Hmong Americans
Nengher N. Vang, Jeremy Hein
doaj  

Expectations for Families to Care for Older Adults in the United States: Rapid Scoping Review 2011-2023. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Fam Theory Rev
ABSTRACT As the population ages and families become increasingly diverse, more work is needed to understand expectations for families to care for older adults. In this review, we discuss the theoretical frameworks and conceptualizations used to study care expectations, summarize overarching findings about theories of care expectations and corresponding
Patterson SE   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mental Health of Hmong Americans: A Metasynthesis of Academic Journal Article Findings [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2013
The mental health of Hmong Americans has been studied since their arrival in the United States. The purpose of this metasynthesis is to utilize a qualitative approach to analyze academic journal article studies that assess mental health issues in Hmong ...
Song E. Lee
doaj  

Shamanism: Indications and Use by Older Hmong Americans with Chronic Illness [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2012
This article reports qualitative interviews from an ethnographic study that explored in part, the health seeking behaviors of and for older Hmong Americans with chronic illness. The study occurred over a 36-month period in the St. Paul / Minneapolis area
Linda A. Gerdner
doaj  

The Importance of Family for a Gay Hmong American Man: Complicating Discourses of “Coming Out” [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2012
This article draws on research with a gay Hmong young man to illustrate the ways in which coming out discourses fail to take into account the central importance of family and kinship for gay Hmong Americans.
Bic Ngo
doaj  

(Mis)Labeled: The Challenge of Academic Capital Formation for Hmong American High School Students in an Urban Setting

open access: yesJournal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 2015
The Model Minority Myth for Asians as a group disguises the challenges facing Hmong and other underrepresented Southeast Asian groups. Using the theoretical framework of Academic Capital Formation (ACF), this qualitative study examines the implications ...
Anna Chiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hmong Americans’ Educational Attainment: Recent Changes and Remaining Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2012
Using U.S. Census data from 1990 to 2010, this paper examines Hmong Americans’ language use, English language ability, school attendance, high school dropout rate, and educational attainment.
Yang Sao Xiong
doaj  

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