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Part 1: There are many shared health risks in Southeast Asian communities, including mental health issues, infectious diseases, and chronic conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and diabetes. Part 2: Life expectancy has improved for Vietnamese Americans, though estimates have limitations due to small sample sizes. Cancer is a leading cause of death, linked to smoking and passive smoking. Excess cancer rates exist for some types. Part 3: The second leading cause of death is heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. Hypertension studies found associations with BMI and insulin resistance applying different thresholds than Caucasian populations. Environmental exposures at different life stages also impact later health and should be examined.

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Đề thi Final Pilot Test

Part 1: There are many shared health risks in Southeast Asian communities, including mental health issues, infectious diseases, and chronic conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and diabetes. Part 2: Life expectancy has improved for Vietnamese Americans, though estimates have limitations due to small sample sizes. Cancer is a leading cause of death, linked to smoking and passive smoking. Excess cancer rates exist for some types. Part 3: The second leading cause of death is heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. Hypertension studies found associations with BMI and insulin resistance applying different thresholds than Caucasian populations. Environmental exposures at different life stages also impact later health and should be examined.

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HANOI UNIVERSITY FINAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TERM 2


DEPARTMENT

Họ và tên thí sinh (Candidate Name): ………………….……………… Chữ ký (Signature): ……………


Ngày sinh (Date of birth): …................... Giới tính (Gender): ……… Số BD (Candidate Number):
………….

ACADEMIC READING (40 minutes)

PART A: VOCABULARY (20 points: 2 points/ each question)

Complete the following paragraph with the most suitable words from the box. (almost words are used
once only and some others are not used)

EXPLOITATION SUBSTANTIAL
CLIMATE FLOW GAINS
KHAI THAC DANG KE

HABITATS ZONES UNPRECEDENTED RELEASED PROSPERITY

Rapid economic growth in recent years has brought (1)_____ to a growing number of Vietnamese business
people and professionals. The (2)_____ of capital into Vietnam from foreign direct investment has created a
number of new industrial (3)_____ that provide valuable jobs for a number of people. Yet alongside these
(4)_____, Vietnam is facing an (5)_____ problem: environmental pollution. Thousands of tonnes of industrial
pollutants and fossil fuels are (6)_____ into the environment on an hourly basis resulting in a (7)_____ decline
to both water purity and air quality. Additionally, numerous natural (8)_____ have been destroyed for
economic purposes like the construction of new plants or factories, driving several species of wildlife to the
brink of extinction. Scientific research suggests that such (9)_____ of our natural resources is causing rapid
(10)_____ change and contributing to global warming.

PART B: READING SKILLS (30 Points)

Questions 11-13: Summarizing

The above passage has 3 main parts:


 Part 1: A&B
 Part 2: C&D
 Part 3: E to G
 read the passage carefully
 summarize the main ideas and the supporting ideas of each part
 express the main ideas/ central points in your own words in complete sentences (using synonyms
and paraphrasing skills to restate the main ideas is advisable and favorable, not just copy the
whole phrases or sentences from the original reading passage).
 Write each main idea of no more than the number of words required for each question
 Write the answers in the answer sheet.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE OF
SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN ELDERS:
Vietnamese Elders
by Barbara W.K. Yee, PhD

Patterns of Health Risk in South-East Asian Countries – Vietnamese

There are many cross-cutting health risks in the Southeast Asian communities. The largest amount of
empirical research deals with mental health issues and acute or infectious health conditions. More recently,
concerns have shifted to a discussion of chronic health concerns and risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular,
cerebrovascular, and diabetes conditions.

It appears that the life expectancy has improved for Vietnamese living in the U.S. In 1979-1989, Merli
(1998) found that the life expectancy at birth was 61.4 years for males and 63.2 for females. Hoyert and
Kung (1997) report 1992 life expectancy in seven high Asian and Pacific Islander reporting states to be 78.8
at birth and 18.8 additional years if a Vietnamese American lived to 65 years of age. The authors caution
that these estimates were based upon small sample sizes, therefore may limit their generalizability.

Cancer is the leading cause of death for Vietnamese of both genders in the United States (Hoyert & Kung,
1997; Shinagawa, et al., 1999). High smoking rates and exposure through passive smoking among Southeast
Asian families contributes to excess cancer rates among this ethnic group. The SEER data (Miller et al.,
1996) report excess cancer rates for Vietnamese males in nasal-pharynx, liver, and stomach cancers. The
same authors report excess cancer deaths for Vietnamese women in cervical, stomach and thyroid cancers.
Vietnamese women have the highest incidence of cervical cancer in the U.S. It appears that much of this can
be explained by lack of Pap screening, however, other factors such as high stress levels may also contribute
to the Vietnamese women’s higher incidence of this cancer.

Stroke Hypertension, and Diabetes. The second leading cause of mortality for both Vietnamese men and
women in the seven U.S. states was diseases of the heart, and another leading cause was cerebrovascular
diseases (Hoyert & Kung, 1997). Among Vietnamese hypertensives over 40 years of age, essential
hypertension was associated with significant increase in body mass index (BMI). However, this figure was
far lower than the defined threshold of Occidental obesity. Insulin resistance was found despite very slight
or no excess weight among Vietnamese hypertensives (Van Minh et al., 1997). This study suggested that
thresholds established in Caucasian populations may be an inexact predictor for the Vietnamese. Related to
the risk of cardiac and hypertension problems may be the high rates (35%- 42%) of smoking among
Vietnamese men.

Other leading causes of mortality for Vietnamese men included accidents and adverse effects, homicide and
legal interventions; for women they included accidents and adverse effects, and pneumonia and influenza
(Hoyert & Kung, 1997).

F
A small community study of recent Vietnamese immigrants in Boston found the following: 32% smoked
(54% males, 9% females); 24% used alcohol; 17% were depressed on the Vietnamese Depression Scale,
with those older than 40 having more depression; ova parasites were found in 51%, (63% of them required
treatment); 70% tested positive on the TB test (39% required treatment); 83% had been exposed to hepatitis
B and 14% were chronic hepatitis B carriers (Nelson, Bui, & Samet, 1997).

Environmental exposures and developmental timing (i.e., in uterus, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young,
middle and elderly adulthood) of such exposure need to be examined to determine how toxicity and
carcinogenic substances influence health of Southeast Asian elderly, for example, dioxin levels in adipose
tissue and exposure to Agent Orange in South Vietnamese (Verger, et al., 1994). (625 words)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240641971

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