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Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA

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Although disparities in the burden of disease and illness experienced across major racial and ethnic groups in the USA is well known, little is known about subgroups, including the Hmong population. This review sought to determine the current state of health disparities related to health promotion and disease prevention among Hmong adults from 1975 to 2015. Seventy-one descriptive (qualitative, mixed methods, and quantitative) studies were reviewed. Most focused on two areas: (1) health status (mainly breast and cervical cancers) and (2) health-related behaviors. This literature review confirms the existence of health disparities related to health promotion and disease prevention in the Hmong adult population. Effective intervention relies on identifying these disparities. A possible explanation for these disparities is the lack of health data collected on subgroup populations, which include the Hmong adult population. More research and more comprehensive health policies at the organizational level are needed to allow data to be collected on subgroup populations in order to better understand the social determinants that place the Hmong people at risk.

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The author was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), Grant no. F31NR015966. This project was also partially supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program through the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Grant UL1TR000427. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. The author would like to thank Dr. Barbara Bowers providing helpful feedback on this paper. The author also wants to thank Dr. Bowers’ research group for helping with the data analysis and for providing feedback on this paper.

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Lor, M. Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 5, 638–661 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-017-0410-9

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