COVID-19 Special Column: COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest

Overview

Journal Hawaii J Health Soc Welf

Specialties General Medicine
Public Health

Date 2020 May 21

PMID 32432218

Citations 67

Authors

Joseph Keaweaimoku Kaholokula

Raynald A Samoa

Robin E S Miyamoto

Neal Palafox

Sheri-Ann Daniels

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Citing Articles

Serial biomarker measurements may be helpful to predict the successful application of high flow nasal cannula in COVID-19 pneumonia patients.

Ikeda R, Pham A, Zhang G, Lai J, Davis J, Devendra G Sci Rep. 2025; 15(1):756.

PMID: 39755869 PMC: 11700188. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-85210-z.

Predictors of seropositivity to SARS-CoV-2 among employees at a large urban medical center.

Kupferwasser D, Flores E, Merino P, Tran D, Liu H, Huang Y BMC Public Health. 2024; 24(1):2754.

PMID: 39385221 PMC: 11462861. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20274-6.

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations in genomic research.

Ha E, Shriner D, Callier S, Riley L, Adeyemo A, Rotimi C NPJ Genom Med. 2024; 9(1):45.

PMID: 39349931 PMC: 11442686. DOI: 10.1038/s41525-024-00428-6.

A serological survey of COVID-19 among predominantly aboriginal residents of a tourist island in southern Thailand.

Sripaew S, Yasharad K, Rahari D, Feng W, Qian Z, Thanh H Trop Med Health. 2024; 52(1):57.

PMID: 39232844 PMC: 11373474. DOI: 10.1186/s41182-024-00617-0.

: Exploring Place of Residency as a Native Hawaiian Health Predictor During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Seto-Myers D, Mokiao R, Camacho S, Huh D, Aaron S, Halvorson M Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2024; 83(8):208-215.

PMID: 39131829 PMC: 11307322. DOI: 10.62547/OLHY2267.

References

Braveman P, Egerter S, Williams D . The social determinants of health: coming of age. Annu Rev Public Health. 2010; 32:381-98. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031210-101218. View

Panapasa S, Mau M, Williams D, McNally J . Mortality patterns of Native Hawaiians across their lifespan: 1990-2000. Am J Public Health. 2010; 100(11):2304-10. PMC: 2951954. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.183541. View

Craig A, Heywood A, Worth H . Measles epidemic in Samoa and other Pacific islands. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020; 20(3):273-275. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30053-0. View

McElfish P . Marshallese COFA Migrants in Arkansas. J Ark Med Soc. 2016; 112(13):259-60, 262. PMC: 5418851. View

Schweitzer R, Wills T, Tam E, Pagano I, Choi K . E-cigarette use and asthma in a multiethnic sample of adolescents. Prev Med. 2017; 105:226-231. PMC: 5653431. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.09.023. View

Yancy C . COVID-19 and African Americans. JAMA. 2020; 323(19):1891-1892. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.6548. View

Panapasa S, Crabbe K, Kaholokula J . Efficacy of Federal Data: Revised Office of Management and Budget Standard for Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders Examined. AAPI Nexus. 2014; 9(1-2):212-220. PMC: 4211287. DOI: 10.17953/appc.9.1-2.cp21x04488016643. View

Kaopua L, Braun K, Browne C, Mokuau N, Park C . Why Are Native Hawaiians Underrepresented in Hawai'i's Older Adult Population? Exploring Social and Behavioral Factors of Longevity. J Aging Res. 2011; 2011:701232. PMC: 3182069. DOI: 10.4061/2011/701232. View

Kakol M, Upson D, Sood A . Susceptibility of Southwestern American Indian Tribes to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). J Rural Health. 2020; 37(1):197-199. PMC: 7264672. DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12451. View

10.

Palafox N, Hixon A . Health consequences of disparity: the US Affiliated Pacific Islands. Australas Psychiatry. 2011; 19 Suppl 1:S84-9. DOI: 10.3109/10398562.2011.583072. View

11.

Kaholokula J, Saito E, Mau M, Latimer R, Seto T . Pacific Islanders' perspectives on heart failure management. Patient Educ Couns. 2007; 70(2):281-91. PMC: 2254651. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.10.015. View

12.

Wills T, Knight R, Sargent J, Gibbons F, Pagano I, Williams R . Longitudinal study of e-cigarette use and onset of cigarette smoking among high school students in Hawaii. Tob Control. 2016; 26(1):34-39. PMC: 4959970. DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052705. View

13.

Thu Win Tin S, Lee C, Colagiuri R . A profile of diabetes in Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2014; 107(2):233-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2014.10.010. View

14.

Nakagawa K, Koenig M, Asai S, Chang C, Seto T . Disparities among Asians and native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders with ischemic stroke. Neurology. 2013; 80(9):839-43. PMC: 3598459. DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182840797. View

15.

Nguyen A . Disaggregating Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (AANHOPI) Adult Tobacco Use: Findings from Wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2014. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019; 6(2):356-363. PMC: 6434519. DOI: 10.1007/s40615-018-00532-1. View

16.

Mau M, Sinclair K, Saito E, Baumhofer K, Kaholokula J . Cardiometabolic health disparities in native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Epidemiol Rev. 2009; 31:113-29. PMC: 2893232. DOI: 10.1093/ajerev/mxp004. View

17.

Wu S, Bakos A . The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey: Data Collection in Small Populations. Public Health Rep. 2017; 132(6):606-608. PMC: 5692155. DOI: 10.1177/0033354917729181. View

18.

Guan W, Ni Z, Hu Y, Liang W, Ou C, He J . Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020; 382(18):1708-1720. PMC: 7092819. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2002032. View

19.

Palafox N . The health and wellbeing of the Pacific indigenous peoples. Hawaii Med J. 2012; 70(11 Suppl 2):3. PMC: 3254228. View

20.

Cockerham W, Hamby B, Oates G . The Social Determinants of Chronic Disease. Am J Prev Med. 2016; 52(1S1):S5-S12. PMC: 5328595. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.09.010. View