Hepatitis Prevention Project in the Korean American Community in Killeen, Texas

Hasan, Syed; Ma, Jessica; Kang, Francis; Song, Juhee; Fang-Hollingsworth, Ying; Sears, Dawn

doi:10.1080/08998280.2015.11929299

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“…In this issue of Baylor Proceedings, two articles from Baylor Scott and White Health in Temple touch upon some of these issues and provide new insights into how to improve screening effi ciency in two very diff erent populations. In one article by Hasan and colleagues, the authors tested 96 Korean Americans for HBsAg, anti-HBs, and anti-HCV (6). None of the individuals was positive for anti-HCV, but 53% had evidence of past hepatitis B infection and 5 were found to be HBsAg carriers and were off ered care at the medical center.…”

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Screening for Hepatitis B in the Immigrant Population and Individuals Who are in Need of Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy

Perrillo

2015

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings

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Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) afflicts approximately 300 million people in the world. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a known carcinogenic virus and continues to be the leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (1). Approximately 70% of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers reside in intermediate (>2% prevalence) to high-risk (>8% prevalence) areas such as Asia, the Pacific Islands, Africa, India, and parts of Southern Europe (1). There is a common misperception that this disorder is not very common in the United States. However, 63% of the nearly 28 million immigrants who entered the US between 1974 and 2008 were born in countries of intermediate or high prevalence (2). The Immigrant Refugee and Migrant Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that an average of 53,000 CHB cases were imported to the US yearly from 2004 to 2008. Forty percent of these cases originated from China, Vietnam, and the Philippines (2). The CDC has recently revised its prevalence estimates and concluded that 2.2 million US residents are likely to have chronic HBV infection, of which 1.3 million are judged to be foreign-born individuals. Even these figures are likely to be too low, however, because the estimates do not take into account illegal immigrants and other socially disadvantaged patients. Importantly, HBsAg testing is not required as part of the process of immigrating into the United States (3). This lack of a requirement for HBV screening is an important missed opportunity to programmatically diagnose this condition.

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Screening for Hepatitis B in the Immigrant Population and Individuals Who are in Need of Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy

Perrillo

2015

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings

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Public health partnerships with faith-based organizations to support vaccination uptake among minoritized communities: A scoping review

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Karbasi

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PLOS Glob Public Health

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Faith-based vaccine initiatives are of growing interest to public health agencies who are looking to increase vaccine confidence among ethnoracially minoritized populations. Despite evidence that support faith-based organizations’ (FBOs) partnerships with public health agencies (PHAs) to increase vaccine confidence, reviews on the scope and efforts to ensure equitable vaccination delivery for ethnoracially minoritized populations are scarce. We aimed to understand how public health agencies collaborate with FBOs or faith communities to improve vaccine confidence among minoritized communities in high-, low- and middle- income countries. We conducted a scoping review by searching OVID MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), SCOPUS, and PROQUEST from 2011 to 2023. We included case studies, news reports, observational studies, experimental, and quasi-experimental studies and multimedia content that describes PHA-FBO partnerships that created vaccine initiatives for marginalized and minoritized communities. The data was extracted, summarized, and results were described narratively. We included 167 initiatives reported in 160 publications; 83.8% of the included articles were published between 2019 to 2023. The interventions carried out by PHA-FBO partnerships attempted to increase vaccine uptake using any or all the following methods. First, the initiatives provided digital and in-person platforms for interfaith learning and established training programs to empower faith leaders to become vaccine ambassadors. Second, the initiatives designed and disseminated education and awareness materials that aimed to be sensitive to religious and gender norms. Third, PHA-FBO partnered to apply equity and faith-based frameworks and provided wrap-around support to enable equitable vaccine access. Majority of the initiatives reported that PHA-FBO partnerships improved vaccine confidence and uptake (71.3%). About 22.2% of the initiatives reported quantitative outcomes post-intervention. PHA-FBO initiatives over the past decade increased vaccine uptake and acceptance among diverse ethnoracially minoritized populations. Reporting of faith-based initiatives are subject to publication bias and can be strengthened by examining more evaluation studies and establishment of key outcome indicators to critically appraise intervention outcomes.

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Hepatitis Prevention Project in the Korean American Community in Killeen, Texas

Cited by 2 publications

References 10 publications

Screening for Hepatitis B in the Immigrant Population and Individuals Who are in Need of Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy

Screening for Hepatitis B in the Immigrant Population and Individuals Who are in Need of Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy

Public health partnerships with faith-based organizations to support vaccination uptake among minoritized communities: A scoping review

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