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Item Barriers to Health Care Access Among Vietnamese Refugees in Tarrant County, Texas.(2004-05-01) Le, Tuan D.; Chiehwen Ed Hsu; Sue Lurie; Raghbir SandhuLe, Tuan D., Barriers to Health Care Access among Vietnamese Refugees in Tarrant County, Texas. Master of Public Health (Health Management & Policy), May 2004, 88 pp., 17 tables, 11 illustrations, bibliography, 56 titles. The refugee community is the most vulnerable community due to existing medical conditions without proper treatment and many barriers in accessing the health care system, including different language, cultural conflict, legal restrictions, and socioeconomic status. The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of these barriers that keep the Vietnamese refugees from accessing the health care system in Tarrant County. The study found that 45.8% have no health insurance, 17.4% received Medicaid, 53.7% have no primary care physician, and 57.14% of Vietnamese elderly refugees, who have been living in the U.S. between seven and ten years, and have lost SSI and Medicaid. These findings are significant at p [less than] .001. Vietnamese refugees perceived factors that kept them from accessing the health care system as major barriers, including language (14%), legal issues (17%), misunderstanding of the medical system (15%), lack of insurance (14%), and different culture (11%). These results may assist social service providers, health care providers, and policy activists to enhance their services and advocate for legal issues, in order to remove these barriers and help refugees to access health care better.Item Evaluation of Sensitive Skin in the Asian Population(2008-12-01) Nguyen, Hanh Thuy; Patricia Gwirtz; Dan Dimitrijevich; Hanh PhamNguyen, Hanh T., Evaluation of Sensitive Skin in the Asian Population. Masters of Science (Clinical Research Management), December, 2008, pp. 80, 7 tables, 1 illustration, bibliography, 26 titles. Over 50% of the world’s population has self-perceived sensitive skin. Many of these individuals believe that their skin sensitivity was caused by topical products which caused them to avoid certain skincare products. However, previous research has shown that geographical environments such as weather changes, temperature, pollution, diet, and lifestyle can cause or enhance skin sensitivity. The results from this study failed to confirm the results from earlier studies. Instead, data indicated that geographical environment effects on skin sensitivity were minimal. Moreover, analysis of transepidermal effects on skin sensitivity were minimal. Moreover, analysis of transepidermal water loss for subjects with and without sensitive skin revealed that the skin barrier function for both skin types was not significantly different. Future studies are needed to investigate the sensitivity of the transepidermal water loss for evaluating skin barrier function. In addition, sample size for these studies should be increased to better represent the testing population. Moreover, if the Asian population is used in future clinical research studies, success will be governed by the effectiveness of the educational materials in minimizing the gap between Asian culture and clinical research in this population.