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Hispanics

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2007

  • Use of Preventive Services Among Hispanic Sub-Groups: Does One Size Fit All?
    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
    Date: 07 / 2007
    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)
    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
    Date: 2007
    This Fact Sheet provides key facts on preventive health services provided to rural Hispanics.

2006

  • Rural Residence and Hispanic Ethnicity: Doubly Disadvantaged for Diabetes?
    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
    Date: 2006
    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.

2005

  • Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency
    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
    Date: 10 / 2005
    This is the executive summary. 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. Executive summary available online.
  • Trends in Uninsurance among Rural Minority Children
    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
    Date: 10 / 2005
    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. Executive summary available online.
  • Rural Hospitals and Spanish Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency (Fact Sheet)
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Cultural competency, Hispanics
    Date: 2005
    Brief overview of findings from a study of how rural hospitals are meeting the needs of patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP).

2004

  • Impact Of Medicaid Managed Care, Race/Ethnicity, and Rural/Urban Residence On Potentially Avoidable Maternity Complications: A Five-State Multi-Level Analysis
    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
    Date: 12 / 2004
    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. Executive summary available online.
  • Mujer y Corazon: Community Health Workers and their Organizations in Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico Border
    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
    Date: 10 / 2004
    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
    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
    Date: 08 / 2004
    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.
  • Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics
    Date: 2004
    Fact sheet describing rates of diabetes and hypertension among rural Hispanics.
  • Diabetes & Hypertension among Rural Hispanics: Disparities in Diagnostics and Disease Management (Executive Summary)
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities, Hispanics
    Date: 2004
    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.

2003

  • Response of Local Health Care Systems in the Rural Midwest to a Growing Latino Population
    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
    Date: 08 / 2003
    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.
  • Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Is it Reaching Rural and Rural Minority Women?
    Research center: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Women
    Date: 04 / 2003
    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.
  • Behavioral Risk Factors Among Rural Hispanics
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health promotion and disease prevention, Hispanics, Substance abuse
    Date: 2003
    Discusses seat belt use, tobacco use, and alcohol use among rural Hispanics.
  • Diagnostic Risk Factors & Improvement Activities Among Rural Hispanics
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Chronic diseases and conditions, Hispanics
    Date: 2003
    Discusses disease management among rural Hispanics.
  • Rural Minority Working Age Adults
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: African Americans, Health insurance and the uninsured, Hispanics, Minority health, Rural statistics and demographics
    Date: 2003
    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.

2001

  • Proximity of Rural African American and Hispanic/Latino Communities to Physicians and Hospital Services
    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
    Date: 06 / 2001
    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
    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
    Date: 05 / 2001
    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.

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