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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Melanie Sabado-Liwag on the Enduring Impact of Colonialism on Health Inequities in the US
Description: There are more than 22 million people of Asian descent living in the United States. In the aggregate, Asian Americans have mostly better economic and health outcomes than other groups, including White Americans.Yet within the broad category of Asian Americans, there are dozens of subgroups often with quite different health outcomes and lived experiences. This within-group heterogeneity is often lost, buried under the so-called model minority myth, which is used to deny attention to unmet needs among Asian Americans and to denigrate the experience of other minority groups such of those of Black and...