Asian Americans are often put under one medical umbrella, affecting available research and more.
A health video by the Pilipino American Stroke Intervention Project alerts Filipinos on stroke warning signs.
“We’re like this absent minority. Every doctor ― white, Black, latino, doesn’t matter ― knows that we are in the hospital. It’s just that there’s so little known about our actual health,” said Antonio Moya, a Filipino neurologist and a physician at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
This type of grouping “assumes that this population ― our population ― is homogenous,” said Melanie Sabado-Liwag, who is an assistant professor of public health at California State University, Los Angeles and is also Filipino American. The lack of available research on Filipinos isn’t just for illnesses that only affect a small number of people. It applies to very common issues like cardiovascular disease.
“Unless they participate, we don’t know that emerging medical and scientific advances apply equally to that specific group,” Napoles said. “It’s commonly said in the community all of this is linked to God being in control and God ultimately having control of what a person’s fate will be.”All of this can lead to the perfect storm, resulting in poor health outcomes. Especially for conditions that require immediate care, like strokes.at the greatest risk for decreased longevity
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