Table 2.
Respondents’ priorities on the most important health issues facing San Francisco’s Asian community
| Health issuea | All | US-born | In US 10+ years | In US <10 years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % | |
| Diabetes | 1 | 29.4 | 4 | 19.4 | 2 | 31.5 | 1 | 29.2 |
| Hepatitis | 2 | 29.1 | 3 | 22.2 | 1 | 32.0 | 2 | 25.8 |
| Health insurance too expensive/no coverage | 3 | 23.2 | 2 | 25.0 | 4 | 21.6 | 2 | 25.8 |
| Heart disease | 4 | 22.5 | 5 | 16.7 | 3 | 22.7 | 2 | 25.8 |
| Cancer | 5 | 20.9 | 1 | 27.8 | 5 | 18.8 | 3 | 22.4 |
| Smoking | 6 | 15.0 | 1 | 27.8 | 6 | 11.1 | 4 | 18.0 |
| Drug/alcohol abuse | 7 | 6.9 | 6 | 8.3 | 9 | 2.8 | 5 | 14.6 |
| Obesity | 8 | 5.6 | 7 | 5.6 | 7 | 4.4 | 6 | 7.9 |
| Language barrier | 9 | 3.6 | 8 | 2.8 | 9 | 2.8 | 7 | 5.6 |
| HIV/AIDS | 10 | 2.3 | 8 | 3.3 | 9 | 1.2 | ||
| Influenza/SARS | 10 | 2.3 | 8 | 2.8 | 9 | 2.8 | 8 | 2.3 |
| Nutrition | 11 | 2.0 | 8 | 2.8 | 11 | 1.5 | 8 | 2.3 |
| Access to doctors | 12 | 1.3 | 11 | 1.5 | 9 | 1.2 | ||
| Arthritis/body aches | 12 | 1.3 | 12 | 1.1 | 9 | 1.2 | ||
| High Cholesterol | 12 | 1.3 | 10 | 2.2 | ||||
| Depression/mental health | 12 | 1.3 | 7 | 5.6 | 8 | 2.3 | ||
| “Asians get sicker” | 13 | 0.7 | 8 | 2.8 | 13 | 0.6 | ||
| General awareness of illnesses | 13 | 0.7 | 8 | 2.8 | ||||
| Lung cancer/disease | 13 | 0.7 | 13 | 0.6 | 9 | 1.2 | ||
| Tuberculosis | 13 | 0.7 | 13 | 0.6 | 9 | 1.2 | ||
| Not sure | – | 19.6 | – | 13.9 | – | 21.0 | – | 19.1 |
Bold values indicate rankings for the hepatitis
aRespondents allowed to give multiple reasons; this was an open-ended question with no prompting from the interviewer regarding answer choices