Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 21, 2019, Pages 3-6

South Asian Health. From Research to Practice and Policy: An Overview (Article)

Gany F.* , Palaniappan L. , Prasad L. , Acharya S. , Leng J.
  • a Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 485 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017, United States, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States
  • b Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States
  • c Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, United States
  • d South Asian Council for Social Services, Flushing, NY, United States
  • e Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 485 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017, United States, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States

Abstract

The US South Asian population has grown tremendously, and is now over 2.5 million. South Asians often face tremendous cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic and structural obstacles to good health, and face staggering cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer risk. Coupled with this is a paucity of detailed data on the population’s unique CVD and cancer risk profiles, etiologic mechanisms, and effective interventions to address South Asian health disparities. This data gap compelled an initiative to develop more targeted research and evidence-based practice and policy approaches. The South Asian Health Initiative (SAHI), a community based participatory research partnership between the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer and the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS), and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute thus partnered to effect the first national South Asian translational research endeavor, South Asian Health: From Research to Practice and Policy, summarized in this paper. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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Immigrant Health Overview Translational research South Asian

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85014938177&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-017-0552-1&partnerID=40&md5=bed6c47fc65dfbfc2d4e023386bcef64
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-017-0552-1
ISSN: 15571912
Original Language: English