Healthcare Disparities

Culturally aware health care: Why it's smart for providers

19/02/2016 06:00am | 7028 views

Healthcare is just beginning to wake up to what marketing folks and the retail industry have been doing for years – focusing on the Hispanic consumer.

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Research explores why Hispanic health outcomes worsen with more time in United States

29/01/2016 11:42am | 7318 views

Written by Julie Poppen

Boulder, Colorado - The mystery of why health outcomes deteriorate the longer Hispanic immigrants are in the U.S. cannot be blamed on America’s fast food culture alone.

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New Study Examines HIV Rates Among Latinos

29/01/2016 11:35am | 7473 views

By Diana R. Cabral (d.cabral@latinpost.com)

 

A new study detailing diagnoses and the prevalence of HIV among Latinos in the United States tells how the disease has risen among men who have sex with men and details the rates of infections among Latino millennials.

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Empowering Healthy, High-Achieving Hispanic Youth

29/01/2016 11:39am | 8057 views

By Alexis Glick, CEO of the GENYOUth Foundation[MJO1] 

With global reports from respected international organizations like the World Economic Forum and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development showing U.S. youth behind their international counterparts in educational prowess, public-private partnerships in America are accelerating efforts to close the nation's skills gap and improve health and fitness among the 88 million children and young adults under 20.

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Obamacare's Impact on Latino Access to Health Insurance

07/11/2015 06:00am | 7320 views

By Gabriel R. Sanchez, Francisco I. Pedraza and Edward D. Vargas

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