Question

• Compare the patterns of the major diseases of Hispanic/Latino groups and their rates and health effects between the other racial or ethnic groups living in the United States.
• Identify at least one consequence that a lack of access to healthcare has on Hispanics/Latinos.
• Explain why access to care issues will need to be monitored even more closely within the U.S. healthcare system beginning 2014.
• Find at least two scholarly journal articles that discuss all or at least one of the topic areas related to Hispanic/Latino health disparities in the United States. Provide a synopsis of each article.
• Explain what type of barrier(s) (structural, financial, or socio-cultural) each article examines? Describe at least two policies or strategies that can be implemented to improve access to healthcare services as they relate to the articles you reviewed.

Answer 1

Ans.) Hispanic Americans and Latino are those populations of the United States who are successor of people from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Except for the Latin America, United States has the largest population of Latinos and Hispanics group. Hispanics/Latinos health is frequently formed by several different variables, for example, dialect/social hindrances, absence of access to preventive concern and the absence of medical coverage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has referred to a portion of the main sources of sickness and passing among Hispanics, which incorporate coronary illness, malignancy, inadvertent wounds (mishaps), stroke, and diabetes. Some other health conditions and hazard factors that fundamentally influence Hispanics are: asthma, perpetual obstructive respiratory illness, HIV/AIDS, heftiness, suicide and liver ailment.

Other Health Concerns: Hispanics/Latinos have higher rates of weight than non-Hispanic whites. There are additionally variations among Hispanic subgroups. For example, while the rate of low birth weight newborn children is bring down for the absolute Hispanic populace in contrast with non-Hispanic whites, Puerto Ricans have a little birth weight rate that is twice when compared to non-Hispanic whites.. Additionally, Puerto Ricans likewise experience the ill effects of asthma, HIV/AIDS and baby mortality. Mexican-Americans experience the ill effects of diabetes.