As a rapidly growing population, America's Asian community is gaining increased attention from the research and policy sectors. This large, diverse group tends to be viewed as a single entity, yet its subgroups reveal great variety in terms of health, from disease rates and mortality rates to attitudes toward illness and access to care.

Section I: Ethnicity and Health.- Chapter 1 Ethnicity and Health by Fang Gong and David Takeuchi.- Chapter 2 Asian Indians by Ranjita Misra.- Chapter 3 Chinese Americans by Angela Sun.- Chapter 4 Filipino Americans by Richard Sean Magbual and Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual.- Chapter 5 Japanese Americans by Tazuko Shibusawa.- Chapter 6 Korean Americans by Grace J. Yoo and Sachiko Wood.- Chapter 7 Vietnamese Americans by Mai Nhung Le and Tu-Uyen Nguyen.- Chapter 8 South Asian Americans by Shilpa Patel and Nadia Islam.- Chapter 9 Southeast Asian American by Khatharya Um.- Chapter 10 Mixed Asian Americans by Cathy J. Tashiro.- Section II: Social Determinants of Health.- Chapter 11 Acculturation, Culture and Health by Yijie Wang and Su Yeong Kim.- Chapter 12 Racism: Mental Health and Health Consequences by Alvin N. Alvarez and Jayoung Shin.- Chapter 13 Socioeconomic Status and Health by Wei Zhang.-Section III: Critical Health Issues Facing Asian Americans.- Chapter 14 Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias by Linda A. Gerdner and Gwen Yeo.- Chapter 15 Cancer by Giang T. Nguyen.- Chapter 16 Cardiovascular Health by Ariel T. Holland and Latha P. Palaniappan.- Chapter 17 Diabetes by Ranjita Misra.-Chapter 18 Obesity by May C. Wang.- Chapter 19 Hepatitis B by Tung T. Nguyen, Vicky Taylor, Annette Maxwell, Moon S. Chen Jr., Roshan Bastani, and Susan Stewart.- Chapter 20 Severe Mental Illness by Russell F. Lim and Francis G. Liu.- Chapter 21 Violence by Deborah A. Goebert, Thao N. Le, and Jeanelle J. Sugimoto-Matsuda.- Section IV: Health Care Delivery.- Chapter 22 Health Care Access by Stephen Vong and Ricky Choi.- Chapter 23 Quality of Health Care for Asian Americans by Dara H Sorkin, Heather Ngai, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger.- Chapter 24 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Asian Americans by Isha Weerasinghe, Lixin Zhang, and Simona C. Kwon.- Chapter 25 Asian Americans and End of Life Care by Evaon Wong-Kim and Nancy J.Burke.-V: Social Movements, Health and theAsian American Community.- Chapter 26 The Chinese Hospital of San Francisco: How the Early San Francisco Chinese Mobilized to Build the Chinatown Community by Laureen D. Hom.- Chapter 27 Lives Were Saved: The Asian American Donor Program by Jonathan Leong, Kira Donnell, and Emily Avera.- Chapter 28 HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States by Don Operario, Judy Tan, and Caroline Kuo.-Chapter 29 Evolution of an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Cancer Advocacy Movement: Heroes Among Us by Susan Matsuko Shinagawa and Alan Oda.- Chapter 30 The Versailles Social Movement and Implications for Asian American Environmental Health in Post- Katrina New Orleans by Maureen Lichtveld and Vy Dao.- Chapter 31 The Role of Asian Americans in Ending Hep B Disease by Ted Fang and Jason Liu.