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“Historically, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Asian people have been viewed as a monolithic group, which mistakenly led others to generalizing their experiences,” said Ninez Ponce, director at the CHPR and an author of the report. “By disaggregating the data for the different groups, we’re learning important information that could help lawmakers craft policy that does a better job reaching the people who need it.” The perception of a monolithic AAPI group directly affects access to mental health services in different Asian languages.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has launched the Data Equity Center to help ensure that historically marginalized populations and their needs are more accurately represented in the vast pools of information government, business and philanthropy are using to make crucial decisions.
Cooper and colleagues assessed 4,260 individuals (69.2% women) who reported having current asthma on the 2021 Adult California Health Interview Survey to find out if smoking status, self-identified male or female gender, education level, e-cigarette use and marijuana smoke exposure are linked to asthma attacks in a fully adjusted logistic regression model.
Interview with Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD, faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor of health policy management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Based on a Health Affairs article Zimmerman co-wrote in 2022, “Population Health In America: Is Culture Stopping Us Dead In Our Tracks?”