Coronary Heart Disease Treatment & Filipino Americans: A Call to Action for Public Health Strategies
Received Date: Feb 19, 2019 / Accepted Date: Mar 25, 2019 / Published Date: Apr 01, 2019
Abstract
Filipinos have substantial ethnic and cultural differences amongst other Asian American subgroups, but tend to carry higher risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes type II, and dyslipidemia. However, there is little research on predicting factors for this increase, and even fewer on treatments individualized for the Filipino community. This paper is an attempt to provide nurses and other health care providers with a compilation of the most recent available literature on causes of higher rates of these risk factors among Asian Americans along with current treatment strategies such as utilizing the Neuman Systems Model and community health workers’ intervention to specifically treat the Filipino community.
Keywords: Filipino hypertension; Coronary heart disease; Dyslipidemia
Citation: Tolentino D, Gantioque R (2019) Coronary Heart Disease Treatment & Filipino Americans: A Call to Action for Public Health Strategies. J Comm Pub Health Nursing 5:228. Doi: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000228
Copyright: © 2019 Tolentino D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.