- Author: VOXXI by Hope Gillete
February is American Heart Month, and while awareness is important for people of all ages and ethnicities, certain groups—like Latinos—are at a higher risk for heart-related diseases.
Close the Gap, an awareness campaign created specifically to bring attention to heart health disparities, indicates heart diseases are a leading cause of death for Hispanics in the U.S..
Among Mexican American adults alone, for example, 34.4 percent of women and 31.6 percent of men suffer from cardiovascular disease.
According to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Latinos born in the United States have...
- Author: Migration Policy Institute
Agriculture is unlike most other key sectors of the North American economy in that its comparative advantage has rested on having access to abundant labor willing to do the work instead of on the accumulation of education and formal credentials. Agricultural labor trends are evolving, however, raising labor supply questions for the United States, Mexico and Central America.
For example, Mexico, which is still the largest supplier of hired labor to U.S. farms, is in the transitional phase of being both farm labor exporter and importer, increasingly relying on workers from Guatemala as its own agricultural workforce shrinks. And with the production of labor-intensive crops expanding in Mexico and the Northern Triangle (El...
- Author: Ronald Roach - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Between 2010 and 2011, a surge in the population of 18- to 24-year-old Latino students attending U.S. colleges resulted in Hispanics becoming the largest minority group enrolled at four-year institutions.
In a College Board webinar entitled “Education Demographics with a Latino Focus,” Dr. Mark Hugo Lopez, the associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center analyzed the 2010-2011 surge and other demographic trends to paint a picture of the overall growth of Latinos in American education and society.
“The Hispanic population has grown; it’s grown quite rapidly in fact, and more than half of the growth in the United States between 2000 and 2010 in its population was driven by growth in the...
- Author: California Department of Finance
California’s population will cross the 50 million mark in 2049 and grow to nearly 52.7 million by 2060, according to new population projections released today by the Department of Finance.
The latest projection series indicates that the Hispanic population will be even with the number of non-Hispanic Whites by mid-2013. Early in 2014, the Hispanic population will become the plurality in California for the first time since California became a state.
This population gain – nearly 15.4 million between 2010 and 2060 – would represent enough new...
- Author: Moffitt Cancer Center
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center conducted a random telephone survey among blacks, whites and Hispanics in New York, Baltimore and Puerto Rico, and found that Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to report that fear of being used as a “guinea pig” and lack of trust in medical professionals contribute in being unwilling to participate in cancer screenings. The researchers concluded that health care providers need to do a better job of instilling trust and dispelling certain fears, particularly among Hispanics, to improve cancer screening rates for lower-income minorities.