Advocates in Hawaii say the pandemic has underscored the importance of collecting and reporting racial data.
The health equity report, published in March of this year, showed that the two single largest groups represented among Pacific Islander COVID-19 cases were Samoan at 29% and Chuukese at 24%.
Now a member of the Honolulu City Council, Kiaʻāina introduced a resolution adopted last month urging Hawaii government agencies to go beyond minimum federal standards and get more specific when collecting racial data in one of the most racially diverse states in the nation. The resolution provides separate categories for Samoan, Micronesian, Tongan, Chamorro and “other Pacific Islander.” Categories also include white, Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and “other Asian.”
While groups organized collectively as Asian and Pacific Islander can bring strength in numbers to smaller communities, getting specific data is helpful for contact tracing especially with language skills and cultural sensitivity, said Alik, who works for Kaiser Permanente. It’s also difficult to detect disparities when there aren’t good population estimates for smaller groups, such as Chuukese people, Quint said.
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