Hispanics

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Behavioral Risk Factors Among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2003
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Substance abuse
Discusses seat belt use, tobacco use, and alcohol use among rural Hispanics.
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Is it Reaching Rural and Rural Minority Women?
Date: 04 / 2003
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Women
Examines whether the Texas Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) is reaching rural women in general and rural minority women in particular. Findings indicate that Hispanic women, both in rural and non-rural, are over-represented among BCCCP clients as compared to race/ethnicity specific cancer incidence and mortality. In contrast, within race/ethnicity groups, Anglo women represent a higher proportion of the rural women being reached by the program. Findings also indicate that a severe shortage of local providers to contract with the program in rural Texas has been and will continue to be a major limitation. In addition, contracting requirements can be a burden and an obstacle to potential providers. Concludes that there is a need in Texas to target specific rural areas based on the incidence and mortality experience of the population. To accomplish this, the contracting process needs to be made more flexible to enable small providers, reimbursement rates may need to be raised, and administrative burdens may need to be lessened.
Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2004
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics
Fact sheet describing rates of diabetes and hypertension among rural Hispanics.
Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics: Disparities in Diagnostics and Disease Management
Date: 2004
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics
Modest disparities in health were found among rural Hispanics when examining diabetes. Undiagnosed hypertension was higher for rural residents, both Hispanic and White, than for urban residents. A large proportion of persons diagnosed with either disease had poor control of their condition, as indicated by elevated glucose levels or high blood pressure.
Diagnostic Risk Factors & Improvement Activities Among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2003
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Hispanics
Discusses disease management among rural Hispanics.
Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care, Race/Ethnicity, and Rural/Urban Residence On Potentially Avoidable Maternity Complications: A Five-State Multi-Level Analysis
Date: 12 / 2004
Author(s): Sarah B. Laditka, James N. Laditka, Kevin J. Bennett, Janice C. Probst
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: African Americans, Hispanics, Maternal and child health, Medicaid and S-CHIP, Women
Complications of pregnancy affect the lives of many women and infants. This study examines pregnancy-related complications using Potentially Avoidable Maternity Complications (PAMCs) as an indicator of access. Findings include: 1) Mothers delivering in rural hospitals had lower PAMC risks than those with urban deliveries.; 2) In rural hospitals, African American women had greater PAMC risks than white women.; and 3) In urban hospitals, adjusted PAMC risks were substantially lower for Hispanics and Asians than for whites.
Mujer y Corazon: Community Health Workers and their Organizations in Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Date: 10 / 2004
Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Ricardo B. Contreras, Linda Callejas, Elvia Ladezma
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Border and international health, Hispanics, Minority health, Workforce
Report Number: Policy Brief
Reports the results of a study that analyzed the Community Health Worker (CHW) organizations and practices to learn how they work and why they are key resources in colonias for improving the health of the communities. The study also examined the relationships of the CHW with and their impact on the communities they serve, finding variation programmatically, structurally, and geographically. A full report is also available.
Mujer Y Corazon: Community Health Workers and Their Organizations in Colonias on the US-Mexico Border: An Exploratory Study
Date: 08 / 2004
Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Ricardo B. Contreras, Linda Callejas, Elvia Ledezma
Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Border and international health, Hispanics, Minority health, Workforce
Reports the results of a study that analyzed the Community Health Worker (CHW) organizations and practices to learn how they work and why they are key resources in colonias for improving the health of the communities. The study also examined the relationships of the CHW with and their impact on the communities they serve, finding variation programmatically, structurally, and geographically. A policy brief is also available.
Proximity of Rural African American and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services
Date: 06 / 2001
Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Topics: African Americans, Health services, Hispanics, Minority health, Physicians
Report Number: Working Paper No. 72
Assesses how local physician concentrations and distances to hospitals differ for rural communities of varying African American and Hispanic/Latino compositions. Uses data at the town-area level for nine southern and six western states to compare town-areas with low, medium, and high proportions of African Americans and Hispanics on their local physician-to-population ratios and distances to nearest hospital offering each of four levels of services. Among the findings are that rural Hispanics, but not African Americans, face longer travel distances to physicians, and both groups face longer distances to some types of hospital services than do non-minority rural individuals.
Proximity of Rural Black and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services
Date: 05 / 2001
Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz
Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Topics: African Americans, Health services, Hispanics, Hospitals and clinics, Minority health, Physicians
This brief reports the findings of a study of how the African American and Hispanic/ Latino composition of rural communities relates to local physician concentrations, and relates to distances to hospitals offering various levels of services.
Response of Local Health Care Systems in the Rural Midwest to a Growing Latino Population
Date: 08 / 2003
Author(s): Michelle Casey, Lynn Blewett, Kathleen Call
Research center: Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics, Minority health
Report Number: Working Paper No. 48
Reports on the case studies of rural communities in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, documenting successful strategies that could be adopted by other communities facing challenges to their local rural health care system in meeting the needs of a growing Latino population. High rates of uninsurance for Latinos, along with language and cultural barriers to care, have contributed to difficulties accessing health care in these communities.
Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency
Date: 10 / 2005
Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Deborah Parra-Medina, Amy Brock Martin, Andrew O. Johnson, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics
Reports that 40 million Latinos in the United States, 14.2% of the population, have limited English proficiency (LEP), which can lead to poor health outcomes in the absence of effective medical interpretation or translation services.
Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2005
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics
Brief overview of findings from a study of how rural hospitals are meeting the needs of patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP).
Rural Minority Working Age Adults (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2003
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: African Americans, Health insurance and the uninsured, Hispanics, Minority health, Rural statistics and demographics
Holding demographic considerations equal, rural residents are less likely to report having health insurance than urban residents. African Americans, Hispanics and persons of other race are all less likely to be insured than whites. The factors placing rural minorities at risk for lacking insurance include low income and low education.
Rural Residence and Hispanic Ethnicity: Doubly Disadvantaged for Diabetes?
Date: 2006
Author(s): Richelle J. Koopman, Arch G. Mainous III, Mark E. Geesey
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Hispanics, Minority health
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(1), 63-8
Reports the results of a study to determine whether living in a rural area and being Hispanic confers special risks for diagnosis and control of diabetes.
Trends in Uninsurance among Rural Minority Children
Date: 10 / 2005
Author(s): Amy Martin, Janice C. Probst, Charity G. Moore, Daniel Patterson, Keith Elder
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: African Americans, Children, Health insurance and the uninsured, Hispanics, Minority health, Poverty
Disparities in health insurance coverage for both minority and rural children persist, with children who are simultaneously minority race/ethnicity and living in rural areas being particularly disadvantaged. Using twenty-one years of data from the National Health Interview Survey to explore trends in health insurance and health services utilization for children between 1980 and 2001, and focusing on non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic African American, and Hispanic children, the authors found that rural children have been consistently less likely to have insurance than urban children, and minority status adds to the disparity. Several factors consistently influenced the odds that a child would lack health insurance, measured in 1980, 1986, 1994 and 2001. Compared to urban white children, rural white children and Hispanic children, both urban and rural, were more likely to lack insurance. Factors consistently associated with lack of health insurance, such as poverty, low education, and non-parental households, have been more prevalent among minority children since 1979, and remained so in 2001. Rural disadvantages for minority children are marked.
Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All?
Date: 07 / 2007
Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst, Nusrat Harun, and Andrew O. Johnson
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cultural competency, Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Minority health
The Hispanic population, the largest and fastest growing minority group in the nation, is generally under-served with regard to health services. This executive summary includes results from the exploration of the use of preventive health services among Mexicans, Puerto-Ricans, Cubans, and "other" Latinos (persons from all other Spanish-speaking countries such as Spain, Central and South America) and examined how the use of preventive services was influenced by nation of origin and by rural versus urban residence.
Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All? (Fact Sheet)
Date: 2007
Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst, Nusrat Harun, and Andrew O. Johnson
Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Cultural competency, Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Minority health
This Fact Sheet provides key facts on preventive health services provided to rural Hispanics.

Topics Centers Researchers Other Resources Search		Hispanics Publications Alphabetical list. You can also view by publication date. Behavioral Risk Factors Among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet) Date: 2003 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Substance abuse Discusses seat belt use, tobacco use, and alcohol use among rural Hispanics. Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Is it Reaching Rural and Rural Minority Women? Date: 04 / 2003 Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Women Examines whether the Texas Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) is reaching rural women in general and rural minority women in particular. Findings indicate that Hispanic women, both in rural and non-rural, are over-represented among BCCCP clients as compared to race/ethnicity specific cancer incidence and mortality. In contrast, within race/ethnicity groups, Anglo women represent a higher proportion of the rural women being reached by the program. Findings also indicate that a severe shortage of local providers to contract with the program in rural Texas has been and will continue to be a major limitation. In addition, contracting requirements can be a burden and an obstacle to potential providers. Concludes that there is a need in Texas to target specific rural areas based on the incidence and mortality experience of the population. To accomplish this, the contracting process needs to be made more flexible to enable small providers, reimbursement rates may need to be raised, and administrative burdens may need to be lessened. Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet) Date: 2004 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics Fact sheet describing rates of diabetes and hypertension among rural Hispanics. Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics: Disparities in Diagnostics and Disease Management Date: 2004 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics Modest disparities in health were found among rural Hispanics when examining diabetes. Undiagnosed hypertension was higher for rural residents, both Hispanic and White, than for urban residents. A large proportion of persons diagnosed with either disease had poor control of their condition, as indicated by elevated glucose levels or high blood pressure. Diagnostic Risk Factors & Improvement Activities Among Rural Hispanics (Fact Sheet) Date: 2003 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Hispanics Discusses disease management among rural Hispanics. Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care, Race/Ethnicity, and Rural/Urban Residence On Potentially Avoidable Maternity Complications: A Five-State Multi-Level Analysis Date: 12 / 2004 Author(s): Sarah B. Laditka, James N. Laditka, Kevin J. Bennett, Janice C. Probst Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: African Americans, Hispanics, Maternal and child health, Medicaid and S-CHIP, Women Complications of pregnancy affect the lives of many women and infants. This study examines pregnancy-related complications using Potentially Avoidable Maternity Complications (PAMCs) as an indicator of access. Findings include: 1) Mothers delivering in rural hospitals had lower PAMC risks than those with urban deliveries.; 2) In rural hospitals, African American women had greater PAMC risks than white women.; and 3) In urban hospitals, adjusted PAMC risks were substantially lower for Hispanics and Asians than for whites. Mujer y Corazon: Community Health Workers and their Organizations in Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico Border Date: 10 / 2004 Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Ricardo B. Contreras, Linda Callejas, Elvia Ladezma Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center Topics: Border and international health, Hispanics, Minority health, Workforce Report Number: Policy Brief Reports the results of a study that analyzed the Community Health Worker (CHW) organizations and practices to learn how they work and why they are key resources in colonias for improving the health of the communities. The study also examined the relationships of the CHW with and their impact on the communities they serve, finding variation programmatically, structurally, and geographically. A full report is also available. Mujer Y Corazon: Community Health Workers and Their Organizations in Colonias on the US-Mexico Border: An Exploratory Study Date: 08 / 2004 Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Ricardo B. Contreras, Linda Callejas, Elvia Ledezma Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center Topics: Border and international health, Hispanics, Minority health, Workforce Reports the results of a study that analyzed the Community Health Worker (CHW) organizations and practices to learn how they work and why they are key resources in colonias for improving the health of the communities. The study also examined the relationships of the CHW with and their impact on the communities they serve, finding variation programmatically, structurally, and geographically. A policy brief is also available. Proximity of Rural African American and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services Date: 06 / 2001 Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center Topics: African Americans, Health services, Hispanics, Minority health, Physicians Report Number: Working Paper No. 72 Assesses how local physician concentrations and distances to hospitals differ for rural communities of varying African American and Hispanic/Latino compositions. Uses data at the town-area level for nine southern and six western states to compare town-areas with low, medium, and high proportions of African Americans and Hispanics on their local physician-to-population ratios and distances to nearest hospital offering each of four levels of services. Among the findings are that rural Hispanics, but not African Americans, face longer travel distances to physicians, and both groups face longer distances to some types of hospital services than do non-minority rural individuals. Proximity of Rural Black and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services Date: 05 / 2001 Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Robert Schwartz Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center Topics: African Americans, Health services, Hispanics, Hospitals and clinics, Minority health, Physicians This brief reports the findings of a study of how the African American and Hispanic/ Latino composition of rural communities relates to local physician concentrations, and relates to distances to hospitals offering various levels of services. Response of Local Health Care Systems in the Rural Midwest to a Growing Latino Population Date: 08 / 2003 Author(s): Michelle Casey, Lynn Blewett, Kathleen Call Research center: Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics, Minority health Report Number: Working Paper No. 48 Reports on the case studies of rural communities in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, documenting successful strategies that could be adopted by other communities facing challenges to their local rural health care system in meeting the needs of a growing Latino population. High rates of uninsurance for Latinos, along with language and cultural barriers to care, have contributed to difficulties accessing health care in these communities. Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency Date: 10 / 2005 Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Deborah Parra-Medina, Amy Brock Martin, Andrew O. Johnson, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics Reports that 40 million Latinos in the United States, 14.2% of the population, have limited English proficiency (LEP), which can lead to poor health outcomes in the absence of effective medical interpretation or translation services. Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency (Fact Sheet) Date: 2005 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics Brief overview of findings from a study of how rural hospitals are meeting the needs of patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Rural Minority Working Age Adults (Fact Sheet) Date: 2003 Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: African Americans, Health insurance and the uninsured, Hispanics, Minority health, Rural statistics and demographics Holding demographic considerations equal, rural residents are less likely to report having health insurance than urban residents. African Americans, Hispanics and persons of other race are all less likely to be insured than whites. The factors placing rural minorities at risk for lacking insurance include low income and low education. Rural Residence and Hispanic Ethnicity: Doubly Disadvantaged for Diabetes? Date: 2006 Author(s): Richelle J. Koopman, Arch G. Mainous III, Mark E. Geesey Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Hispanics, Minority health Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(1), 63-8 Reports the results of a study to determine whether living in a rural area and being Hispanic confers special risks for diagnosis and control of diabetes. Trends in Uninsurance among Rural Minority Children Date: 10 / 2005 Author(s): Amy Martin, Janice C. Probst, Charity G. Moore, Daniel Patterson, Keith Elder Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: African Americans, Children, Health insurance and the uninsured, Hispanics, Minority health, Poverty Disparities in health insurance coverage for both minority and rural children persist, with children who are simultaneously minority race/ethnicity and living in rural areas being particularly disadvantaged. Using twenty-one years of data from the National Health Interview Survey to explore trends in health insurance and health services utilization for children between 1980 and 2001, and focusing on non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic African American, and Hispanic children, the authors found that rural children have been consistently less likely to have insurance than urban children, and minority status adds to the disparity. Several factors consistently influenced the odds that a child would lack health insurance, measured in 1980, 1986, 1994 and 2001. Compared to urban white children, rural white children and Hispanic children, both urban and rural, were more likely to lack insurance. Factors consistently associated with lack of health insurance, such as poverty, low education, and non-parental households, have been more prevalent among minority children since 1979, and remained so in 2001. Rural disadvantages for minority children are marked. Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All? Date: 07 / 2007 Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst, Nusrat Harun, and Andrew O. Johnson Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Cultural competency, Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Minority health The Hispanic population, the largest and fastest growing minority group in the nation, is generally under-served with regard to health services. This executive summary includes results from the exploration of the use of preventive health services among Mexicans, Puerto-Ricans, Cubans, and "other" Latinos (persons from all other Spanish-speaking countries such as Spain, Central and South America) and examined how the use of preventive services was influenced by nation of origin and by rural versus urban residence. Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All? (Fact Sheet) Date: 2007 Author(s): Myriam E. Torres, Jessica D. Bellinger, Janice C. Probst, Nusrat Harun, and Andrew O. Johnson Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center Topics: Cultural competency, Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Minority health This Fact Sheet provides key facts on preventive health services provided to rural Hispanics. Related Topics These related topics also list publications: Minority health (50 items)

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