Health Behaviors Focus Group Findings

Health Behaviors Focus Group Findings From a series of groups held Nov. 2002August 2003 Cambridge Health Alliance Department of Community Affairs ...
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Health Behaviors Focus Group Findings

From a series of groups held Nov. 2002August 2003

Cambridge Health Alliance Department of Community Affairs

Table of Contents

Overview chart of focus group findings……………………………. 3 Focus group FAQs…………………………………………………… 5 Focus group summaries……………………………………………… 6 Full reports…………………………………………………………….8 Women’s health focus groups………………………………… 8 Cantonese speakers 65+………………………………... 8 Cantonese speakers under 65………………………….11

Health issues in Malden’s Vietnamese community…………15

Focus groups on primary care and access to healthcare…..21 English speakers………………………………………..21 Haitian Creole speakers………………………………..26 Portuguese speakers……………………………………32 Spanish speakers……………………………………….37

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OVERVIEW OF FOCUS GROUP FINDINGS Language Barriers to healthcare spoken Cantonese • Long wait to get a doctor’s (65 and over appointment years of age) • Long wait time at appointment to see the doctor and interpreter Cantonese • Long wait time to get (