The duty of healthcare providers is to go beyond the principles of beneficence and non-maleficence to create a more equitable health system in which a patient’s health outcomes are not determined by their race, ethnicity, language skills, or social or cultural capital. One step in creating this equitable health system is addressing the unique health challenges faced by a rapidly growing part of America – Asian Americans. As of the 2018 census, there are approximately 23 million Asian alone-or-in-combination residents in the United States. This thesis will examine how Asian Americans form social networks, the impact that social networks have on health behaviors and outcomes, help-seeking behaviors, and barriers and challenges faced when interacting with the healthcare system. I will then offer possible solutions for healthcare systems and individual providers on how they can improve interactions with Asian patients, provide culturally responsive care, and address individual and systemic barriers. / Urban Bioethics

The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has seen increased adverse mental health outcomes secondary to the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes growing literature that shows that AAPIs are at higher risk of experiencing symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Many studies allude to how these disparities in mental health outcomes may be secondary to how the world has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. This thesis will explore this mental health inequity by organizing literature into three major groups using the biopsychosocial model, which is a holistic model classically used in mental health to model how biological, psychological, and social stressors can be the cause of mental illness. This thesis will look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected many people who identify as AAPI and how they have been disproportionately affected compared to their White counterparts. / Urban Bioethics

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It was the purpose of this study: (1) to examine the obstacles in research in the uniquely difficult area of sampling of the American-Chinese population and (2) to find out what descriptive approaches do not produce resistance, hopefully to suggest future research in this area and (3) to obtain historical and descriptive data which might offer, from a sample of both delinquent and non-delinquent American-Chinese youth, some clues to the rehabilitation of youthful offenders. Specifically, this was basically an attempt to obtain an available sample of both delinquent and non-delinquent American-Chinese youth for the purpose of identifying some of the psychosocial variables which might have deterrent influences upon delinquency.

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