Twenty-seven percentage of Hispanic adults in the U.S. do not have even health tending providers, although many of those adults have wellness insurance and speak English, according to a work released on Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the San Jose Mercury News reports. For the study, researchers last summer conducted telephone surveys of 4,013 Hispanic adults in both English and Spanish (Davila, San Jose Mercury News, 8/13).
The study found that Hispanic workforce, younger adults, and those with less education or without health insurance were most likely to not have regular providers (Stewart, Newark Star-Ledger, 8/13). According to the study, around half of the Hispanic adults without regular providers had completed high school, and about 45% had health insurance. In summation, Hispanic adults born in the U.S. were more likely to have regular providers and health indemnity than those born abroad and those who lived in the U.S. for only a short time, the study found.
The study found that 41% of Hispanic adults world Health Organization did not have regular providers "say the principle reason is that they are seldom sick" (Abram, Contra Costa Times, 8/13). However, according to the study, Hispanic adults cause a disproportional rate of diabetes and obesity, which can position them at increased risk of exposure for inwardness disease and other serious health problems (Newark Star-Ledger, 8/13).
The study also found that 83% of Hispanic adults obtain health care information from media outlets like goggle box (Contra Costa Times, 8/13). In addition, the study highlights the diversity within the population, according to Debra Joy Perez, elderly program officeholder at RWJF. For example, the work found that Cubans and Puerto Ricans in the U.S. are more likely to consult traditional kinsfolk healers and that those who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border more regularly seek health forethought outside the country (San Jose Mercury News, 8/13).
Implications
The study authors wrote, "When it comes to Latinos, what crataegus laevigata appear to be the well-known effects of socioeconomic inequality on health concern may as well be conditioned by singular social, cultural and economic circumstances" (Contra Costa Times, 8/13). In addition, they said that the results of the study indicate the pauperism for providers to encourage Hispanic adults to seek routine wellness care.
William Vega, a professor of mob medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles who helped with the study, aforesaid, "That's the real spread I guess we're facing: the ability to provide a medical home for a spectrum of this population" (San Jose Mercury News, 8/13).
The reputation is usable online.
A webcast of an event examining how national health reform proposals address the health needs of Hispanics will be uncommitted online Thursday at kaisernetwork.org.
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