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.
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Universal Healthcare: A stark difference exists between U.S. Hispanics & Non-Hispanics.
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).
Latinos support Health Care Reform.
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.
What does it mean to be ‘healthy’ for kids?
Scarborough Research posed this question to teens via the Scarborough Kids Internet Panel (S.K.I.P.). In this customized, teen-focused study, we set out to learn more about teen health perceptions and to examine their habits and lifestyles. Download report here.
Pampers launches web series ‘A Parent Is Born’.
Pampers diapers launched “A Parent Is Born,” a 12-episode Web series documenting the real-life journey of a young couple as they experience pregnancy and birth for the first time. The series debuts on Pampers.com today, and also includes a syndication plan with a number of partners online.
The Latino health issue that no one is talking about.
This week we have Dr. Margarita Alegria, Ph.D. , she is the Director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, and a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also the first and only tenured Latina professor at Harvard University. We spoke with her about mental health issues, trends, challenges, and disparities in service delivery among the Hispanic population. To listen to podcast CLICK above.
