Why Are Native Hawaiians Underrepresented in Hawai'i's Older Adult Population? Exploring Social and Behavioral Factors of Longevity.

Native Hawaiians comprise 24.3% of Hawai'i's population, but only 12.6% of the state's older adults.

Longevity disparities in multiethnic Hawaii: an analysis of 2000 life tables.

Objective: We examined differences among seven major ethnic groups in Hawaii in life expectancy at birth (e[0]) and mortality at broad age groups.

Methods: We constructed life tables for 2000 for Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, and Samoan ethnic groups in Hawaii. We partitioned overall mortality into broad age groups: <15 (representing premature mortality), 15-65 (representing working age), and 66-84 and > or =85 (representing senescent mortality).

Ethnicity, birth weight, and maternal age in infant mortality: Hawaiian experience.

To investigate the role of ethnicity, birth weight, and maternal age in infant mortality, separately in neonatal and postneonatal phases, this study used linked birth and infant death certificates for a 10-year period, 1979-1988, in the State of Hawaii. Log-linear analysis was applied to the cross-classified tables generated from the two files. Birth weight was a strong factor both in neonatal and postneonatal phases, but ethnicity was a factor only in the latter phase.