Excerpt from Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures

Implementation Research and Asian American/Pacific Islander Health

Numerous barriers prevent the translation of research into practice, especially in settings with diverse populations. Nurses are in contact with diverse populations across settings and can be an important influence to further implementation research. This paper describes conceptual approaches and methodological issues pertinent to implementation research and implications for Asian American/Paci...

Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, although constituting <3% of the total U.S. population in 1990, comprise a very diverse group, with >20 population groups. The majority (~95%) are Asian, with the major categories being Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Asian Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese. These numbered almost 7 million in the 1990 U.S. Census. The major categories of Pacific Islanders are Haw...

Asian American and Pacific Islander Families : Resiliency and Life-span Socialization in a Cultural Context

A sian American and Pacific Islanders protective factors and resiliency processes across (AAPIs) are often portrayed as a AAPI ethnic groups (Yee, Huang, & Lew, 1998). resilient "model minority." AAPI indiIn this chapter, we highlight how AAPI families viduals have been described as being well eduprovide protection and diminish risk for family cated and financially stable; valuing hard work mem...

Cultures, collaboratives, and capabilities: the richness of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander CBPR.

Environmental influences on tobacco use among Asian American and Pacific Islander youth.

There is growing interest in understanding individual and environmental influences on youth risk behaviors, including tobacco use. The purpose of this article is to describe the processes and findings from a study that sought to increase the capacity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community-based organizations to understand and address the environmental influences on tobacco use ...