Johnson David B, Oyama Neil, LeMarchand Loic, Wilkens Lynne
Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, USA.
Pac Health Dialog. 2004 Sep;11(2):120-30.
This paper shares 2000 data on Native Hawaiian health and compares the 2000 data with data from 1982 and 1990. The findings suggest that Native Hawaiians continue to die at younger ages than Hawai'i residents in other ethnic groups, have a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and asthma than other ethnic groups, and have higher rates of smoking, drinking, and being overweight. Compared to earlier years, however, smoking and drinking prevalence has decreased, and more Native Hawaiians are getting physical exams and other screening exams. These improvements may be related to increases in Native Hawaiian health professionals, supported by the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program, and to increased access to health education and to care through outreach programs such as the Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems and the Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program. If these programs are allowed to continue and to expand, we should see an improvement in overall health status of Native Hawaiians.
本文分享了2000年夏威夷原住民健康数据,并将该数据与1982年和1990年的数据进行了比较。研究结果表明,夏威夷原住民的死亡年龄仍低于夏威夷其他种族的居民,高血压、糖尿病和哮喘的患病率高于其他种族,吸烟、饮酒和超重率也更高。然而,与早期相比,吸烟和饮酒的患病率有所下降,越来越多的夏威夷原住民接受了身体检查和其他筛查。这些改善可能与夏威夷原住民健康专业人员的增加有关,这得到了夏威夷原住民健康奖学金计划的支持,也与通过夏威夷原住民医疗保健系统和乳腺癌与宫颈癌控制计划等外展项目增加了健康教育和医疗服务的可及性有关。如果这些项目能够继续并扩大,我们应该会看到夏威夷原住民的整体健康状况得到改善。