Commentary: Persistence and health-related consequences of the model minority stereotype for Asian Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 133-138

  Yi, Stella S ^a   Kwon, Simona C ^a   Sacks, Rachel ^b   Trinh Shevrin, Chau ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Independent Consultant Salem   (United States)

Author keywords

And Practice; Asian Americans; Attitudes; Discrimination; Emigrants; Health Care Disparities; Health Knowledge; Immigrants; Minority Health

Indexed keywords

ASIAN AMERICAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MINORITY GROUP; OBESITY; REVIEW; STEREOTYPY; TOBACCO USE; VISIBILITY; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; MALE; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962683204     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: 19450826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18865/ed.26.1.133     Document Type: Review

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