Comparison With Other Ethnicities
One of the most important aspects of this phenomenon is the comparison of Hispanic’s health to African American’s health. Both the current and historical poverty rates for Hispanic and African American populations in the United States are consistently starkly higher than that of non-Hispanic White and Asian Americans. Dr. Hector Flores explains that “You can predict in the African–American population, for example, a high infant-mortality rate, so we would think a poor minority would have the same health outcomes.” However, he said, the health poor outcomes are not present in the Hispanic population. For example, the age-adjusted mortality rate for Hispanics living in Los Angeles County was 52 percent less than the blacks living in the same county.
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