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Paul Ong, UCLA professor of public policy, social welfare and Asian American studies, and Ninez Ponce, UCLA professor of health services, recently wrote “The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health in California Report,” which is the first to use statewide health data on this…
Women’s breast cancer risk may be reduced with regular soy intake. A study of Asian American women reported in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention suggested that eating soy throughout life was associated with lower risk of the disease. However, the most visible protection was provided with…
Two university professors at Florida State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a decrease in racial prejudice that occurred during the Nov. 4 election. They call this the Obama Effect. A series of studies and experiments done with 300 non-black (white, Asian or Hispanic) students, designed to…
Asian Americans are often attributed with positive images of higher education, income and level of employment. Yet, this image is also overshadowed the public’s perception when it comes to health insurance coverage among the Asian American community. A study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation in January 2007…
Last quarter Pacific Ties published “No English, No Help,” which reported that many immigrants are not adequately prepared to respond to natural disasters, mainly because they are not sufficiently fluent in English. Consequently, they suffer a worse fate in the aftermath of such disasters. In a similar vein,…