Health promotion in Asian-Americans

Healthy People 2010 was developed to meet the nation's goals for better health by the end of the present decade. Its purpose focuses on eliminating health disparities in the U.S. (Ghosh, 2003). Six areas for concentration of efforts were selected specifically because of their direct impact on the health of minorities: infant mortality, immunizations, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. This paper reviews the six key areas to discover the most significant points of focus for health promotion of the Asian-American population to be lack of immunizations, which results in high incidence of hepatitis B infections and liver disease.