Data and research
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The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) influences policy, mobilizes communities, and strengthens programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. We believe in health justice and work with community advocates, public health leaders and policymakers to generate policy and systems changes that benefit our communities at the national, state and local levels.
This map represents the states where AIM for Equity partners are located and highlights their progress toward implementing the Affordable Care Act’s significant components—the Medicaid Program Expansions and the Health Insurance Exchanges. While these two health policy changes represent an important way for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AAs & NHPIs) to access health insurance, they are decisions left to the states to implement.
Epidemiologic Profile 2010: Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
In August 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a groundbreaking report focusing on the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities and their disease burden for several viral communicable diseases: specifically, HIV /AIDS; viral hepatitis; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); and, tuberculosis (TB).
| Author: | APIAHF |
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| Published: | August 2012 |
| Type: | Health Brief |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Chronic diseases HIV/AIDS » Community planning Health services » Data and research Health policy » Data and research Chronic diseases » Hepatitis B HIV/AIDS Health services » Preventive care Health services » Public health Health advocacy HIV/AIDS » Health strategies Health policy |
Small business employers have a difficult time providing coverage for themselves and their employees due to rising health insurance premiums. As a result, small businesses offering coverage declined from 68% in 2000 to 59% in 2007.
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
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| Published: | July 2012 |
| Type: | Health Brief |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy » Data and research Health services » Public health Health policy » Health care access Health policy Health policy » Health care reform Health policy » Health disparities |
| Author: | Policy and Advocacy |
|---|---|
| Published: | September 2011 |
| Type: | Fact Sheet |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy » Data and research Health policy » Health care access Health policy Health policy » Health care quality Health policy » Health care reform |
| Author: | Chronic Diseases |
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| Published: | October 2010 |
| Type: | Health Brief |
| Language: | English |
| State: | Ohio |
| Topic: | Chronic diseases » Cancer Health policy » Data and research |
| Author: | HIVAIDS |
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| Published: | October 2010 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy » Data and research HIV/AIDS » Community planning |
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparities provides an overview of NHPI health in the United States on a wide range of health issues. Limited by the available data, most of the statistics presented in this report represent the aggregated NHPIs as a whole, although we used disaggregated statistics for distinct ethnic groups to the extent they were available.
| Author: | NHPI Affairs |
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| Published: | August 2010 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | Health policy » Data and research Health policy » Health disparities |
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