Health Issues for Minority Adolescents

by Kagawa-Singer, Marjorie; Katz, Phyllis A.; Taylor, Dalmas A.; Vanderryn, Judith H. M.

• ISBN13: 9780803227323
• ISBN10: 0803227329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Adolescents are an underserved group in terms of health care. Poor and minority youth are particularly shortchanged in our current system. In view of the high incidence of many medical and psychological syndromes associated with poverty and discrimination, this situation is paradoxical. This book examines both common and unique health issues associated with a number of different groupsAfrican-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American, and Hawaiianand explores the role of traditional and nontraditional treatments for each. The chapters represent a compendium of the most up-to-date studies summarized by leading researchers and include specific recommendations for improving health care services, which will prove valuable to providers and those concerned with public policy. The authors conclude that unless greater attention and resources are devoted to these youth, the consequences will continue to be dire, both for the groups involved and for society as a whole.

Author Biography

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, a nurse and anthropologist, is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. She is the author of numerous articles concerning cross-cultural health care and multicultural issues in cancer care. Phyllis A. Katz is a clinical and developmental psychologist. She is the director of the Institute for Research on Social Problems, where she researches children’s gender-role development and racial attitude acquisition. She is coauthor of Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society (Nebraska 1992). Dalmas Taylor, provost at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the author of Ethnicity and Bicultural Considerations in Psychology: Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minorities. Judith Vanderryn is a psychologist at the Denver Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, where she treats patients with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xix
Poverty and Adolescent Health	p. 1
Health and Related Services Available to Black Adolescents	p. 36
The Health of Latino Youth: Challenges for Disease Prevention Hortensia Amaro, Miriam Messinger, and Richard Cervantes	p. 80
American Indian Adolescent Health	p. 116
Health Issues of Asian Pacific American Adolescents	p. 142
Health and Related Services for Native Hawaiian Adolescents	p. 168
The Federal Government's Role in Improving the Health of Poor and Ethnic-Minority Adolescents	p. 188
Policy Recommendations for Ethnic-Minority Adolescent Health Issues: a Paradigm Shift	p. 217
The Contributors	p. 243
Author Index	p. 249
Subject Index	p. 262
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