Trends of Sex Ratio at Birth and Its Association
By Dr. Hyelee Kim for AAPI Woman’s Health Disparities Writing Group | July 2023
Hyelee Kim, MD, MAS, MS at UCSF School of Medicine Society for Epidemiologic Research June 13-16, 2023, Portland, Oregon
Hyelee Kim, MD, MAS, MS, presented a poster named “Trends of sex ratio at birth and its association with sociodemographic factors among Asian American subgroups,” which was submitted to the HPHR Journal, formerly Harvard Public Health Review, with members of the East Rock Institute (Drs. Patty Lee, Youngstown Kim, Yeojin Kim, Hesung Chun Koh) in the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2023 meeting held in Portland, Oregon from June 13th to 16th.
This study analyzed the National Vital Statistics System for Natality Data - the heterogeneity of sex ratio at birth with the natural male to female ratio being 1.05. It suggests broad diversity trends in demographic transition stages in the original Asian countries as well as the cultural values generated during adaptation to the U.S. among the Asian American subgroups.
Editor’s Note: “The triangular relationship of Asian American identity” described by Dr. Hesung Koh is based on her leadership and participation in the oldest and longest continuously held intercollegiate and inter-generational conference produced at Central Connecticut State University from 1970-1987, and then at Yale University from 1989-2002. Annually, 200 to 300 participants from North American campuses were represented at these conferences. (From the Koh and East Rock Institute Collection)
Editor’s Note 1: From Dr. Hesung Chun Koh’s analysis of records of nearly 30 annual intergenerational forums titled, “The Korean and Korean Americans Conference,” the nation’s earliest and the longest continuously held forum of its kind for, and featuring Asian Americans.
These conferences were first organized by Drs. Kwang Lim Koh and Hesung Chun Koh with the support of President F. D James, CCSU, Korean and East Asian Studies faculty members and the Koh’s six children.
For seventeen years held at Central Connecticut State University, 1970-1987, students from Korea have benefitted as the result of the Koh Scholarship established by the University.
This conference was moved to Yale University in New Haven in 1989, the year Dr. Kwang Lim Koh passed away, I was sponsored by East Rock Institute and the Korean American Students at Yale (KASY.) 1989-2002
Two to three hundred participants from over a dozen universities and colleges attended.
People of multicultural Korean family by birth by marriage, adoption, and friends of Korea were welcomed at these conferences. (From the Koh and East Rock Institute Collection)
