Cultural Factors Influencing Health Literacy, Health Care Access, and Health Behaviors Among Korean-Americans

Kyeung Mi Oh, Kyungeh An, Moonju Lee, Gary L. Kreps

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Resumen

The majority of KAs are relatively new immigrants. As a recent immigrant group, KAs face many barriers to accessing relevant health information and health services, partly due to their low English language proficiency levels and their low rates of having health insurance. Due to aggregating national health data for more than 60 Asian nationalities into one Asian American group, littleis known about health and health information needs, barriers to health information seeking, communications, and health care servicesfor specifically KAs. This chapter reviews the previous studies of KAs to describe the health information seeking behaviors and synthesize cultural and linguistic barriers to health literacy and health care access among KAs. Based on existing empirical evidence, we provide recommendations for strategies to optimize information seeking and promote proper health communication to meet the health priorities and needs of KAs.

Idioma originalEnglish (US)
Título de la publicación alojadaGlobal Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees
Subtítulo de la publicación alojadaCases, Theories, and Strategies
EditorialTaylor and Francis
Páginas15-34
Número de páginas20
ISBN (versión digital)9781000582543
ISBN (versión impresa)9781003230243
DOI
EstadoPublished - ene 1 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Medicine

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