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Title: LOGO South Asian Public Health Association


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South Asian Public Health Association
Getting on the Agenda Priorities in South Asian
American Health
Kalpana Bhandarkar, Abhijit Ghosh, MPH, Ushma D.
Upadhyay, MPH
AAPI-NetSAP-SAPHA Health and Wellness
Symposium Washington DC April 27, 2002
2
SAPHA Background
  • Established in Spring 1999
  • Began with 10 members
  • Currently over 350 members
  • Members from the US and around the world
  • Activities in New York City, Baltimore, and
    Washington, DC

3
Brown Paper
  • To summarize and present health concerns of the
    South Asian American Community
  • Project initiated in July 2000
  • Includes literature reviews and a resource guide
    for health services focusing on South Asian
    Americans

4
Brown Paper
  • Methods SAPHA members commissioned to review
    current literature in their fields of expertise
  • Topics include Sociodemographic Profile, Elderly
    Health, Youth Health, Womens Health, Gay/Lesbian
    Concerns, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease,
    Diabetes, HIV/AIDS, Intimate Partner Violence,
    Mental Health, Nutrition, and Substance Abuse

5
Brown Paper
  • Provide health data to policy-makers, community
    organizations, health and community workers,
    social workers, physicians, and clinicians
  • Reach out to community leaders and South Asian
    press to disseminate information
  • Raise awareness among SA community about health
    issues
  • Encourage future research on SA health issues

6
HIV/AIDS among South Asians
  • Chapter authored by Linda Groetzinger, Chicago
  • Most data is on Asian American and Pacific
    Islanders (AAPIs)
  • No break down by Asian subgroups

7
Main Findings
  • CDC data 1 of PLWA are AAPIs
  • 5,728 cumulative cases (through December 2000)
  • Unknown mode of transmission
  • AAPI women 21
  • Americans overall 16
  • MSM AIDS cases
  • AAPI 72
  • Americans overall 56

8
Main Findings
  • 1999 California Dept. of Health Services
  • 26 cases of Indian origin
  • 10 cases of Pakistani origin

9
Conclusions
  • Are South Asians assumed to be safe?
  • HIV exists in our community
  • Risk increases as denial continues
  • Stigma needs to be eliminated
  • Need to connect with marginalized South Asians

10
South Asian Public Health Association http//www.s
apha.net
Elderly Health and Caring for the Caregiver
Abhijit Ghosh MPH, Rashmi Gupta, Ph.D., LMSW
11
Objectives
  • Who are South Asian Elders
  • What their primary concerns?
  • What the Caregivers concerns?
  • Recommendations/Next Steps

12
Define the Population
  • National Indian American Association for Senior
    Citizens 2000 Estimate 10 are gt60 years old
  • Two Subgroups
  • Late-life Immigrants
  • Immigrants from the 1970s-80s

13
Primary Elderly Concerns1998 National Indian
American Association for Senior Citizens
14
Self-Esteem and Community Connection
  • The need for the elderly to connect with a
    community and to feel needed are crucial to
    develop self worth at a stage in their lives in
    the US where cultural shock could also inhibit
    their open interactions.
  • Raj Razdan, Executive Director/Founder of Senior
    Citizens Program (Atlanta)

15
Primary Barriers to Integration
  • Language
  • Transportation
  • Cost to organize activities
  • Trust

16
Caregivers Burden
  • Burden Definition
  • Impact on finances
  • Impact/interruption of work schedule
  • Lack of assistance by extended family
  • Sense of entrapment
  • Female burden of care

17
Caregivers Concerns
  • Trend increase in years of serving as a
    caregiver, there is a great financial burden,
    interruption of work schedule, and heightened
    sense of entrapment due to servicing increased
    health needs.
  • We would want our parent(s)/in-laws to back to
    live (South Asia) with our siblings for good but
    when they are in poor health, nobody wants them.
    Caregiver in Dallas, Texas

18
Recommendations
  • Assist in the development of integration into a
    community through educational programming and
    providing classes such as ESL/civic classes and
    voter registration drives.
  • Help seniors develop their own social network
    through planning social and cultural events such
    as movie nights and picnics.
  • Work with seniors to develop obtainable goals in
    the future such as fostering hobbies.

19
RecommendationsResearch
  • Conduct further research doing surveys of health
    indicators for elderly 65 years and older.
  • Develop relevant informational material in
    different languages.
  • Conduct further research to evaluate potential
    gender-based differences in the role of the
    caregiver.
  • Evaluate the needs of those who have aged here
    vs. those who have immigrated in later in life.

20
South Asian Public Health Association http//www.s
apha.net
Youth Health
Kalpana Bhandarkar, Amishi Gandhi MPH, Mona
Shah, MSW
21
Objectives
  • To outline the specific health needs of South
    Asian youth
  • To stress the importance of age-sensitive and
    culturally-appropriate youth services
  • To increase involvement of the South Asian
    community in young peoples lives

22
Main Findings
  • Lack of Health Insurance
  • 9 million uninsured children
  • 5 AAPI
  • Lack of Access
  • 2-3x more likely to lack regular care
  • Financial, language and cultural barriers

23
Main Findings
  • Symptoms
  • lower self-esteem
  • heightened feelings of alienation
  • signs of depression among AAPI girls
  • higher suicide rates among AAPI girls

24
Main Findings
  • Low Access to Mental Health Services
  • Only 1 of all mental health services accessed by
    NYC youth were by AAPIs

25
Main Findings
  • Explanation
  • Language barriers
  • Financial barriers
  • Distrust
  • Cultural stigma

26
Recommendations
  • Research
  • School-based education
  • School-based health centers
  • Local outreach
  • Materials in South Asian languages
  • South Asian community involvement

27
Role of Community
  • Participation
  • Health insurance outreach
  • Health education
  • Translation services

28
Brown Paper Recommendations
  • Reliable data is needed
  • South Asians
  • Disaggregated for sub-groups
  • More funded research on health status, needs, and
    concerns of South Asians
  • Focus on culturally appropriate outreach and
    education
  • The model minority myth must be eliminated

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SAPHA
  • South Asian Public Health Association
  • http//www.sapha.net
  • To join the SAPHA listserv send an e-mail to
  • sapha-subscribe_at_yahoogroups.com
  • or
  • ghoshab_at_hotmail.com
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