Project: Part 3: To address Filipino American health disparities in future, experts look to past inequality
Advocates highlight how factors like colonial history contributed to likely disproportionate Covid toll on the community.
Project: Part 2: 85% of Filipino Americans reported Covid mental health issues, more than any Asian group
The group has a disproportionate number of nurses, health care workers and families living in multigenerational homes.
Filipino Americans account for 4% of the nurses in the U.S. but about 25% of COVID-19 deaths among nurses. Some are leaving the profession.
A reporter finds people are hungry for spaces to talk about the mental health challenges confronting their communities.
Dr. Clayton Chau, director of the Orange County Health Care Agency, joined a group of Asian American medical providers, officials, advocates and journalists to speak about mental health.
This is the third story in a three-part TimesOC series “Improving Healthcare Access for Cambodians and Vietnamese,” supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2020 California Fellowship.
The need for mental health services in the Vietnamese community is high, but there’s a strong stigma attached to mental health in the community, and members aren’t always able to access the type of services they need.
In the U.S., Cambodians and Vietnamese continue to struggle with access to culturally sensitive health care.