title: Listening to Chinese Immigrant Restaurant Workers in the Midwest: Application of the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to Explore Perceptions of Health and Health Care.
abstract: This study engages with the culture-centered approach (CCA) to explore Chinese immigrant restaurant workers' perception of the U.S. health care system and their interactions with the health care system in interpreting meanings of health. Chinese restaurant workers are marginalized because of their struggles on the job, their immigrant identity, and their negotiations with the structural contexts of occupation, migration status, and culture. In-depth interviews were conducted with 18 Chinese immigrant restaurant workers that lasted an average of 1.5 hours each, and were audiotaped. Interviews with participants highlighted critical issues in access to health care and the struggles experienced by restaurant workers in securing access to health, understood in the context of work. Critical to the workers' discourse is the acknowledgment of structural constraints such as lack of insurance coverage, immigration status, and lack of understanding of how the U.S. health care system works.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health and Kinesiology , Purdue University.
authors.forename: Haijuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: b Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) National University of Singapore.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.affiliation: c Department of Africana Studies , Binghamton University.
authors.forename: Titilayo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okoror
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D012147:Restaurants; D000069756:Undocumented Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult