Recommended Web Sites

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute/Vietnamese Aspire for Healthy Hearts - These easy-to-read, bilingual Vietnamese and English fact sheets provide readers with tips and essential information about lowering their risk for heart disease.
Keep Your Heart in Check: Know Your Blood Pressure Number
Be Active For A Healthier Heart
Serve Up A Healthy Life
Don't Burn Your Life Away

Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Guide for Asian Women - The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has created this information.

Take Care of Your Heart: Manage Your Diabetes - The National Diabetes Education Program offers fact sheets in 15 Asian languages.

Addressing Cardiovascular Health in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - This booklet is from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. This site is in PDF format and requires an Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

Asian American Donor Program - The Asian American Donor Program (AADP) is a community non-profit organization geared towards saving lives. Asians are desperately needed to register as potential marrow/stem cell donors.

Asian American Health - This Web resource on Asian American Health, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to increase public awareness of the health concerns of these important minority groups, who are major contributors to our society's economy, innovation, and vibrancy.

Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training - The Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART) seeks to build partnerships to increase cancer awareness, to promote greater accrual of Asian Americans in clinical studies, to increase training opportunities for Asian Americans and to develop pilot programs in four targeted regions: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Asian American/Pacific Islanders and Lung Disease - The American Lung Association provides these statistics on lung diseases in the Asian population.

Asian American Populations - Asian Americans represent both extremes of socioeconomic and health indices: while more than a million Asian Americans live at or below the federal poverty level, Asian-American women have the highest life expectancy of any other group. Read more about Asian Americans and their health at this site from the CDC.

Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health - Break the language barriers which discourage many Asian and Pacific Islander women from seeking cancer screening services. This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals.

Cervical Cancer Screening: What Vietnamese Women Should Know - The National Cancer Institute has prepared this information.

Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans - The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse has prepared these fact sheets and statistics on the prevalence of diabetes in the Asian American population.

FDA Food and Nutrition Labeling - The FDA provides a translation of nutritional labeling in Cambodian, Chinese, Laotian, Thai, Korean and Vietnamese.

Health Problems in Asian American/Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian Women - This site, from The National Women's Health Information Center includes statistics and explanations of how some disease affect different groups.

HealthFinder Just For You:Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders - Help yourself, your family, or your community be healthier with reliable health information in English, as well as Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese, and other languages from HealthFinder.

Hepatitis B and Asian Americans - The American Liver Foundation provides this information.

Hmong Health Website - Click here for health information in two languages.

KidsHealth for Parents: Kawasaki Disease - This site was created by the Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media and aims to provide the best children's health information on the Internet. The information found here is written specifically for parents.

MEDLINEPlus: Asian American Health - The National Library of Medicine provides these links to quality sites on the Internet.

Osteoporosis and Asian American Women - This information was created by the National Institutes of Health Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases.

Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities - Read about the disparities between the different races and ethnic groups at this site from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Social Security Information for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - The Social Security Administration provides this information in a number of languages.

SPIRAL/Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages - Tufts University's Health Sciences Library has developed this health resource for Asian-Americans whose first language is not English. Dubbed SPIRAL for "Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages," it contains detailed health information for both phsycians and patients in seven Asian languages--Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.

US Office of Minority Health - The mission of OMH is to improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health.

Vaccine Information Statements - Vaccine information is found in more than twenty languages at this site managed by the Immunization Action Coalition.