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Article: Meeting the challenge of caring for Hispanic women.
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- Contraceptive Technology Update
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Meeting the challenge of caring for Hispanic women
Hispanic women access reproductive health care less often and need it more, national figures show. More than one in three Hispanic women polled in a 1999 survey said they had not received a routine gynecological or prenatal exam in the last year. Nearly a quarter had not gone for such checkups in at least two years. And more than one in 10 said they had never had such an exam..sup.1
Such lack of care is troubling when given the following statistics:
Cervical cancer rates among Hispanic women are nearly double those of the general population, according to a recent report by the National Cancer ...