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Many Hispanics Shut Out of U.S. Health Care System


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Women, older Hispanic men, more educated Hispanics, those born in the United States, and those with insurance and a usual care provider are more likely to get their medical information from doctors, Minushkin said.

Many Hispanics get their health care information from Spanish television and radio, Minushkin said. Hispanics who are bilingual or English speakers and better educated and younger tend to get health information from the Internet, she added.

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For more on Hispanics and health care, visit the Pew Hispanic Center.

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Last updated 8/13/2008

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SOURCES: Aug. 12, 2008, teleconference with Gretchen Livingston, senior researcher, and Susan Minushkin, deputy director, Pew Hispanic Center, Washington, D.C.; William Vega, Ph.D., professor of family medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Aug. 13, 2008, Pew Hispanic Center/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey


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