HONOLULU — Native Hawaiians experience fewer years of good health compared with other ethnic groups in the state, a public health study found.
The study by University of Hawaii researchers published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health found Native Hawaiians have 14 less years of healthy life than other groups.
The study was based on a self-reported survey that calculated the number of healthy years among the state’s indigenous people and those with Caucasian, Filipino, Japanese, and Chinese heritages.
Life expectancy data is based on death records collected by the state health department and population estimates from the U.S. Census. Researchers subtracted the number of years each ethnic group reported spending in poor health.
The study found Native Hawaiians have 62.2 years of healthy life expectancy, compared with 75.9 years for Chinese, 74.8 for Japanese, 73.3 for Filipinos, and 72.1 years for Caucasian Hawaii residents.
Native Hawaiians also have the highest rates of chronic health conditions — including coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.
“Until we can fix those things, I imagine we’ll continue to see a similar pattern,” said Kathryn Braun, a University of Hawaii Manoa public health professor.
Although all ethnic groups are living longer and life expectancy has improved since 1950, a 10-year gap remains between Native Hawaiians and the longest-living group at any given time, she said.
“Differences in life expectancy are determined by many things but primarily by socioeconomic status,” Braun said.
A 2017 U.S. Census Bureau projected Native Hawaiians across the United States are living to about 80 years old, compared with 76.6 years in Hawaii.
“It’s very hard to stay healthy if you’re houseless or living in your car. If we had adequate housing, education and health care for all we would see those gaps diminish significantly,” Braun said.
It does not take a rocket scientist to determine that Every single native people who had their lands stolen and taken over has the worst health issues, so why waste all that money and effort adding more water under the bridge instead of addressing that issue?
Everyone knows that most so-called “Native Hawaiians” have most of their ancestry from Asia and Europe. Blood quantums of 1/4 or 1/8 are very frequent. But what very few people know is that these victimhood “studies” showing bad statistics for disease, health, etc. are based on a very bad way of doing data analysis. If someone has heart disease or diabetes and the researchers ask “What is your ethnicity?” if the victim has even a small portion of Hawaiian blood, he will be counted as fully Native Hawaiian AND HE WILL NOT BE COUNTED AS BEING ANY OF HIS OTHER ETHNICITIES. Even someone who is 1/8 “Hawaiian” and 7/8 Caucasian will be counted as adding one full tally mark to Native Hawaiian victimhood and nothing at all for Caucasian victimhood. This way of allocating race is defended by saying that if we count someone as being whatever is the highest percentage of his ancestry then there would be too few “Native Hawaiians” to be statistically significant, so we must do it this way.
The best way to do racial allocation of victimhood would be to give a fraction of a tally mark to each race in the victim’s ancestry, equal to the fraction of that race in his ancestry. But researchers are too lazy to do it correctly, and also know there’s no grant money to study Caucasian disease; all the money goes to study Hawaiian disease.
You can find a “smoking gun” confession of the one drop = 100% Hawaiian statistical technique, and a thorough analysis of it, on a webpage with the following title. The title is self-explanatory. Copy/paste it into your browser, or google, to read the details:
Native Hawaiian victimhood — malpractice in the gathering and statistical analysis of data allegedly showing disproportionate Native Hawaiian victimhood for disease and social dysfunction. How and why the Hawaiian grievance industry uses bogus statistics to scam government and philanthropic organizations, politicians, and public opinion.