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Health indicators are key in analyzing the overall public health of the Filipino American population. [1] Main health indicators of a particular population include mortality and morbidity. By analyzing these statistics, the effect of certain health practices of the Filipino American population can be determined.
Filipino immigrants take part in fewer mental health services than other Americans. Filipino Americans were once immigrants. [14] Filipinos are one of the largest groups of Asian-American immigrants. About 1.66 million Filipinos are immigrants. [15]
Another study, published in 2017, found that Filipino American youth were at higher risk of depressive symptoms during adolescence and young adulthood compared with their Chinese American peers.
The term Filipino American is sometimes shortened to Fil-Am [18] or Pinoy. [19] Another term which has been used is Philippine Americans. [20] The earliest appearance of the term Pinoy (feminine Pinay), was in a 1926 issue of the Filipino Student Bulletin. [21]
And according to a new West Health-Gallup 2021 Healthcare in America Report, 30% of Americans reported deferring medical care in the prior three months due to cost, a figure that has tripled since ...
After the Spanish–American War (1898), the U.S. acquired control over the Philippines and conferred U.S. national status upon the islands' population. The U.S. Army trained and recruited Filipinos as Volunteer Auxiliary and Contract Nurses to serve in the Philippines, focusing on tropical diseases. [3]
After the Philippine-American war and the ensuing U.S. occupation, both countries passed the Pensionado Act in 1903. Exchange students from the Philippines were chosen to travel to the U.S.
In the 1970s and '80s, Filipinos in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan region had a higher socioeconomic status than Filipinos elsewhere, as more than half of Filipino immigrants to the metropolitan area were healthcare professionals or other highly trained professionals, in contrast to established working-class Filipino American ...