Se Habla Health?
Last week's MONITOR Minute took a look at the health attitudes and perceptions among African Americans. Hispanics share many of those same health barriers and mindsets: a sense of fatalism, a curative rather than preventive mindset and a lack of access/transportation to healthcare facilities. U.S. Hispanics compose the largest and fastest-growing population in this country, reaching 45 million in 2007.(1)Yet looking at the Hispanic population as a monolithic group can be misleading. Foreign- and U.S.-born Hispanics share a common cultural pride but differ in important ways, especially on the topic of health. Segmenting the vast...