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Reproductive health survey among Indochinese immigrants, Seattle, Washington, 1994-1995 : final report
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September 1997
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Description:TheSeattleReproductiveHealthSurveyAmongIndochineseImmigrantswasinitiated bythe International Community Health Services (ICHS), formerly known as the International District Community Health Center (IDCHC), the Office on Women's Health (OWH) and the Title X Family Planning Program of the US Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services,RegionX. TechnicalassistancewasprovidedbytheDivisionofReproductiveHealthat theCentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention(CDC)inAtlanta. FrankIrigon,formerICHS director, proposed the survey in order to obtain population based data to better serve immigrant and refugeeclientswhocomprisethemajorityoftheclinic'spopulation. Itwascompletedunderthe current ICHS Director, Dorothy Wong, with Barbara Lui as the primary local coordinator.
Improving the health of women has long been a priority of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Region X Office on Women's Health and the Title X Family Planning Program. This agency is known for encouraging community health providers to be creative and innovative in finding ways to improve the health of women, especially those who have less access to services due to income, language and cultural barriers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health (CDCP/DRH) has been a longtime partner in providing expertise to local and state entities to evaluate the needs of women of reproductive age in Region X. ICHS has a twenty year history of providing culturally and linguistically accessible services to low-income, limited and non-English speaking Asian Pacific American residents of Seattle and King County.
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