Culture of Native Americans Research Paper

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ASIAN-AmericanS & SOCIOECONOMIC ISSUES OF POVERTY, ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES, FAMILY PLANNING AND CONTRACEPTION PRACTICES

The objective of this study is to examine the socioeconomic issues of poverty, access to quality health care services, family planning and contraception devices among Asian-Americans.

Today's health care environment in the United States is a setting with a great diversity of patients of many race, ethnic and cultural groups and today's practitioners must be knowledgeable about providing health care services that are effective and that assist their patients.

Family Planning Disparities

The work of Dehlendorf, Rodriguez, Levy, Borrero and Stinauer (2010) reports in regards to family planning disparities, "Prominent racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in rates of unintended pregnancy, abortion, and unintended births exist in the United States. These disparities can contribute to the cycle of disadvantage experienced by specific demographic groups when women are unable to control their fertility as desired. In this review we consider three factors which contribute to disparities in family planning outcomes: patient preferences and behaviors, health care system factors, and provider related factors. Through addressing barriers to access to family planning services, including abortion and contraception, and working to ensure that all women receive patient-centered reproductive health care, health care providers and policy makers can substantially improve the ability of women from all racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to make informed decisions about their fertility.

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II. Study Clearly Demonstrates Differences in Frequency of Use of Contraception

The work of Farrid, Siddique, Bachman, Janevic, and Pichika (2013) conducted a study that sought to understand the diverse ethnicities of all women that were in receipt of health care in November 2011 and 2012 in New Jersey. The study was a cross sectional study that used chi-squaring to report the frequencies of the use of contraception in a sampling of 42 South Asian respondents and 143 non-South Asian respondents the findings of the study include that "South Asians are statistically significantly less likely to routinely use contraception and that gaps in contraceptive knowledge appear to stem from multiple barriers, including family opposition and pressure from spouse or in-laws to have children, cultural prohibitions, fear of side effects and misinformation, lack of education/knowledge about contraceptives and difficulty in accessing contraception. These gaps in contraceptive knowledge were also found to be multigenerational, despite higher levels of education generally seen in the South Asian population." (p.1)

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