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Article: Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US.
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- NewsRx Health
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- November 15, 2009
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Where Latinos are born and their immigration status affect the quality of health care they receive in the US, according to Professor Michael Rodriguez and colleagues from the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and the Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare based in Los Angeles, California. New information from this just-released study highlights the need for improved health systems for immigrants - documented or undocumented, US-born or foreign-born. Findings (1) are published online this week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine[sup.2], published by Springer.
Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations in the US. To date, most ...