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- Title
Hispanic Ethnic Groups Face Variety of Serious Health, Social Problems.
- Authors
Klitsch, M.
- Abstract
The article draws some observations primarily from a group of articles published in a special issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association" that highlighted the health problems and needs of Hispanic Americans. Some Hispanic subgroups--the Puerto Rican population in particular--have a much greater risk than others of experiencing serious problems such as low birth weight and infant mortality. Mexican Americans, on the other hand, have better birth outcomes than average, but are more likely than other Hispanic groups to lack health insurance. According to data from the March 1990 Current Population Survey, about 20.8 million Americans were classified as being of Hispanic origin. In March 1990, 80 percent of non-Hispanic families were headed by a married couple, compared with 70 percent of Hispanic families. The data published in the journal shows that Puerto Rican women of reproductive age are more likely to be protected from pregnancy by sterilization than are Cuban or Mexican Americans.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH of Hispanic Americans; ETHNIC groups; LOW birth weight; INFANT mortality; HEALTH insurance; PREGNANCY; STERILIZATION (Birth control)
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, Vol 23, Issue 4, p186
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135746