There has been a 34% increase in the US Hispanic population from 1980-1988 due to heavy immigration and high birth rates, resulting in a young age structure for Latinos with a median age of 25.5 years vs. the US median of 32.2 years. US Latinos are a very diverse group which includes ...
Census back in 2000 stated that about thirty-four percent of Latinos did not have any health insurance. There was an analysis of Latino students in seventh, ninth, and eleventh grades, twenty percent did not know where to go for medical help. The younger adolescents were not informed about ...
Meeting the mental health needs of elderly Latinos affected by depression: implications for outreach and service provision. conceptual studies on mental health issues facing older Latinos, as well as outreach, clinical practice, and policy recommendations for working with this ... M Brennan,M Vega,...
Also, 95.2% of the respondents reported that they had undergone a Papanicolaou test within the past 3 years, but only 3% of these women were aware of all the risk factors for cervical cancer mentioned in our survey. Conclusions It is very important to improve comprehensive reproductive health...
The authors also comment on the need for greater attention to Latino older adults' emotional functioning, in general, and that of Latinos with dementia, in particular, as well as the needs of their caregivers.KathleenD.WarmanGregoryBenson-Flórez...
Also, 95.2% of the respondents reported that they had undergone a Papanicolaou test within the past 3 years, but only 3% of these women were aware of all the risk factors for cervical cancer mentioned in our survey. Conclusions It is very important to improve comprehensive reproductive health...
This policy objective is meant to address the fact that there are highly pronounced gaps in e-government usage among people who predominantly speak a language other than English, as little e-government content is available in non-English formats; for example, 32% of Latinos who do not speak ...
but these values are often mediated by the various microcultures that are interpreted differently within them. There is a strong belief in the individuality and individualism that exists within the national macroculture. Ethnic communities often much less endorse it. African Americans and Latinos who ...
Most of the students in the school district were white with “upper middle class incomes” and the article implies that there was a single high school with an “average enrollment of 1,100 students.” African-Americans made up 8% of the students, Latinos 12% and Asians 2%. The majority ...
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority in the U.S., making up 15 percent of the population. Research has shown that many young Latinos face discrimination in their daily lives. "Discrimination has been linked to a variety ofmental healthsymptoms," said Selcuk Sirin, associa...