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A publication of the Asian Pacific Fund, Asian Outlook is a report released every year to focus public attention on mainstream issues as they affect Asian Americans in the Bay Area.
Fall/Winter 2008
How Childhood Obesity Effects the Asian American Community
Fall/Winter 2007
Challenges for Today's Asian American Students
Fall/Winter 2006
Understanding the Immigration Debate
Fall/Winter 2004
Close Up Views of Mental Health and Immigration Issues
Fall/Winter 2003
Bay Area People in Need: Unemployed, Youth & The Elderly
There is a 63 percent change there will be a strong, damaging Bay Area earthquake in the next 25 years. Get a free booklet to learn easy ways you can prepare. This booklet has information in English, simplified Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean. Click here for more information.
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Elderly Asian women have the highest suicide rate of any racial or ethnic sub-group in the United States. A major cause of this is depression. This health education video discusses the treatment of depression for the Asian elderly. Click here for more information.
Guided by the Health Advisory Committee and based on interviews with 90 community health experts and reviews of studies and medical journals, "A Chance for Lan and Her Family" found that in every stage of life Asians face life-threatening diseases that could be prevented.
Three serious health issues disproportionately impact Asian Americans:
- Asians have the highest suicide rate among elderly women.
- One-third of Asian high school seniors smoke.
- More than half of the 1.3 million Americans infected with hepatitis B are Asian, even though Asians are only 4 percent of the population.
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Despite dramatic growth in population and need, Bay Area Asian nonprofit organizations are underfunded according to this analysis of public and private funding.
- Asian nonprofit agencies receive one-third less funding overall than nonprofit agencies throughout the Bay Area region.
- While the Asian population doubled during the 1980s, the average revenue growth among all Asian organizations between 1989 and 1993 was 27 percent. The Bay Area growth rate for all nonprofits was 104 percent.
- Only 0.5 percent of local foundation grants go to local Asian nonprofits.
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