Category: Asian Americans
Life Expectancy Increases, However Suicides Up in 2022
CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released two reports today examining provisional mortality data from 2022. While analysis shows the number and rate of suicides increased for the second year in a row from, overall life expectancy at birth increased by just over a year. This increase regains some of the 2.4 years of life Read More >
Posted on byQuickStats: Percentage of Uninsured Adults Aged 18−64 Years, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Selected Asian Subgroups — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019−2020
During 2019–2020, the percentage of U.S. adults aged 18–64 years who were uninsured was 14.4%. Among all race and Hispanic origin groups, non-Hispanic Asian adults (7.8%) were the least likely to be uninsured followed by non-Hispanic White (9.7%), non-Hispanic Black (14.6%), and Hispanic adults (30.4%). Among the non-Hispanic Asian subgroups shown, adults of Korean (14.3%) Read More >
Posted on byFact or Fiction: Are Asian mothers are less likely to be unmarried at the time they give birth than mothers of other race/ethnicities in the U.S.?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqV2e7u8fjU Source: National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 67, Nos. 1 and 2 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_01_tables.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_02.pdf Read More >
Posted on byAsian American Mothers: Maternal Characteristics by Maternal Place of Birth and Asian Subgroup, United States, 2016
Questions for Anne K. Driscoll, Ph.D., Statistician and Lead Author of “Asian American Mothers: Maternal Characteristics by Maternal Place of Birth and Asian Subgroup, United States, 2016” Q: What do you feel was the most interesting finding in your report? AD: Although Asian mothers as a groups differ from other mothers on the characteristics analyzed, Read More >
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