Health Risks Of Living In US Border Colonias Prompt Funding Increase Proposal
Health Risks Of Living In US Border Colonias Prompt Funding Increase Proposal
*This is very good news! There are twenty-five hundred colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border where conditions are equal to third-world standards. President Obama wants to increase funding by 50 percent […]
Latino Health Care 5 Years After the ACA: Findings from the Latino National Health and Immigration Survey
*Here are some interesting numbers that came from this study on Latinos and the ACA: the overall percentage of uninsured Latinos has decreased since Obamacare; 1 in 4 Latinos haven’t […]
Insuring undocumented residents could help solve multiple U.S. health care challenges
*Two things stand out in this article: the authors of the study and the specificity of their findings. The three authors, researchers at UCLA and Berkeley, are Latino, and they’re […]
Vulnerable Latino Elders Face Shortage of Geriatric Health Professionals
*In their later years my parents received the best medical care available to them. That was becasue mom was a public health nurse, so coordinating the team effort between multiple […]
Hispanics face serious drinking water issue along Texas border
*This is also part of the national Latino narrative. There are places in Latino concentrated South Texas where as many as 90 thousand people have no running water. It’s also […]
Congressman Speculates ‘Illegal Aliens’ Could Be To Blame For Measles Outbreak
*There’s so much to lay-out here. First off, Mo Brooks’ ill timed, ill thought statement makes a case for comprehensive immigration reform. If those immigrants he calls “illegal” were documented […]
Latino Enrollment Is Critical For Obamacare, So Is It Happening?
*15.5 million young and uninsured Latinos can tip the balance of Obamacare. VL By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Five Thirty Eight Politics This time last year, news coverage of Obamacare was […]
Latina immigrant women might not trust supermarkets
*Did you know this? Latina immigrants have a point about healthy food and U.S. supermarkets. What Whole Foods is for the affluent, local markets are for the not so affluent. […]
Many Latino Adults Still Uninsured As Overall Uninsured Rate Falls to New Lows
*34.2 percent of Latinos are still uninsured. The percentage is significantly down since 21013, but there’s obvious work to be done. VL By Michael Oleaga, Latin Post The rate of […]
Low-crime, walkable neighborhoods promote mental health in older Latinos
*This study should expand our understanding of mental health. We’re used to looking at individual and family links to mental health, but neighborhoods and other “macro-systems” contribute to an older […]
