Six substantive areas that contribute to knowledge of the health status of Southeast Asian (SEA) refugee women were identified in the current literature. The six areas are general information, child‐bearing issues, health beliefs and practices, health‐illness focus, stress and adaptation, and miscellaneous issues. The majority of the articles focused on the women's childbearing role, emphasizing their unique cultural beliefs and the implications of those for health care delivery. The remaining substantive areas provided more limited information about this group's health status, including incidence and prevalence of disease, the women's role in resettlement, and the presence of mental health problems. Future research with this group could be conducted from a feminist perspective by studying the multitude of roles of SEA refugee women and their effects on health status. A portion of Judith Kulig's doctoral education has been sponsored by the Canadian Nurse Foundation and the Patricia Smith Christensen Scholarship. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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role playing refugee human Health Behavior Refugees Labor, Obstetric health status ethnology United States Southeast Asia female Review pregnancy cultural factor Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Cultural Characteristics Asia, Southeastern labor Role