Health

LIVESTRONG is expanding its outreach to the Hispanic/Latino community through promotion of its free Spanish-language resources aims to provide more support to a wider number of Hispanics/Latinos affected by cancer and those closest to them through increased visibility or access to the most common places people go for information: the internet, cellular devices and media outlets.

Many multicultural populations are particularly at risk: a new study by the Hispanic Institute For Americans For A Secure Retirement found that only 41 percent of Hispanic workers say they have saved money for retirement.

As the public debate over healthcare reform continues to rage, mention is seldom made of the vital role that immigrants play in the healthcare workforce of the United States.

A new study conducted by Encuesta, Inc., shows that there is a sharp difference in attitudes regarding universal healthcare (defined in the survey as healthcare where everybody has access to some type of health insurance) and having access to affordable healthcare (specified in the survey as only applicable to U.S. citizens and residents) between U.S. Hispanics and non-Hispanics (defined as all other racial and ethnic groups in the proper distribution).

A new poll released by Latino Decisions, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico (UNM-RWJF Center), and impreMedia, shows a widespread consensus among the Latino/Hispanic electoral about the importance of health care reform and indicates significant support for expansion of coverage. For the first time, health care tops the list of national issues identified by respondents as the most important issue Congress and the President need to address. This is particularly impressive, given that in April 2009 a similar Latino Decisions poll found that only 6% of the Latino electorate had identified health care as the most important issue.