Preventive care
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 |
This webinar focused on expanded access to coverage, health disparities, and funding opportunities for community-based organizations under health care reform. APIAHF Policy Analyst Paulo Pontemayor discussed the health insurance exchanges and health care provisions that will help reduce health disparities among Pacific Islanders. Don Novo, Medicaid Program Branch Manager, and Tom Schenck, Region IX Pacific Island Territories Lead, provided an overview of the changes to Medicaid.
| Author: | NHPI Affairs |
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| Published: | March 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Ethnicity: | Samoan, Tongan, Guamanian or Chamorro, Fijian, Polynesian |
| Topic: | Health services » Preventive care Health policy » Health care access Health policy » Health care disparities Health advocacy » Cultural competency Health policy » Health care quality Health policy » Health care reform Health advocacy » Language access Health policy » Health coverage Health policy » Health disparities Health policy » Language access |
This webinar focused on access and coverage issues. Dr. Garth Graham, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Minority Health, provided welcome remarks. Herb Schultz, Director of the Region IX office, opened the webinar with an overview of the Department of Health and Human Services, the role of the Region IX office, and key benefits of health care reform. James Mason, Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, gave a summary of the Office’s outreach and ongoing implementation work with the Pacific Island territories.
| Author: | NHPI Affairs |
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| Published: | February 2011 |
| Type: | Presentation |
| Language: | English |
| Ethnicity: | Samoan, Tongan, Guamanian or Chamorro, Fijian, Polynesian |
| Topic: | Health policy » Health benefits Health services » Preventive care Health policy » Health care access Health policy » Health care quality Health policy » Health care reform Health policy » Health coverage |
This document is intended as a tool to assist community-based organizations (CBOs) who are interested in implementing and/or enhancing HIV prevention programs targetting Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) communities. It highlights “promising interventions” that are currently being developed and implemented for A&PIs who are living with HIV/AIDS (LWHA). In general, HIV prevention programs for individuals LWHA are often referred to as “Prevention for Positives” (P4P) or “Prevention with Positives” (PwP) programs.
| Author: | HIVAIDS |
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| Published: | April 2004 |
| Type: | Toolkit |
| Language: | English |
| Topic: | HIV/AIDS » Community planning Health services » Preventive care |
