Accessing cultural competent health education programs in the twenty-first century

In a 1999 survey of cancer beliefs and attitudes among Chinese in San Francisco, 66 percent of the respondents said they preferred reading or watching television in Chinese.4 Moreover, a report of the 2005 Men's Health day (a biennial health fair conducted by CCHRC) showed that 92 percent of th...

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Published in:Chinese America, history and perspectives history and perspectives, 2007-01, p.75
Main Authors: Sun, Angela, Stearman, Sarah, Chow, Edward A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Chinese Americans
Disease management
Health aspects
Health education
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitals
Nonprofit organizations
Services
Womens health
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Summary:In a 1999 survey of cancer beliefs and attitudes among Chinese in San Francisco, 66 percent of the respondents said they preferred reading or watching television in Chinese.4 Moreover, a report of the 2005 Men's Health day (a biennial health fair conducted by CCHRC) showed that 92 percent of the Chinese participants preferred to receive health information in Chinese.5 ESTABLISHMENT OF CCHRC The Chinese Community Health resource Center (CCHRC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote a healthier lifestyle through bilingual health education, programs, and services and to participate in community-based research related to health care. Emerging issues were written into memos and reanalyzed to discover new themes, categories, or hypotheses to be studied in future research. data analyses suggested that there are important differences between American- born and foreign-born Chinese women in their beliefs about, perceptions of, and experiences with breast cancer, which may have important implications for cancer support services and survivorship. both groups of women described their breast cancer diagnosis as a wake-up call to remind them to take better care of themselves. both identified cancer support groups as a way of helping them to cope with cancer.
ISSN:1051-7642