Hispanics and Health Care
in the United States:
Access, Information and Knowledge
A Joint Pew Hispanic Center and Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Research Report
Written by:
Gretchen Livingston,
Senior Researcher
Susan Minushkin,
Deputy Director
Pew Hispanic Center
D’Vera Cohn,
Senior Writer
Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................1
FOREWORD.........................................................................................................3
OVERVIEW AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................4
The Likelihood of Having a Usual Health Care Provider .......................................6
Profile of Persons Who Lack a Usual Health Care Provider..................................7
Quality of Health Care ........................................................................................8
Health Information Sources .................................................................................8
Diabetes Knowledge ...........................................................................................9
CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION: HISPANICS AND CHRONIC
DISEASE IN THE U.S. .......................................................................................10
CHAPTER 2 – UTILIZATION OF A USUAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
AND SATISFACTION WITH HEALTH CARE ...............................................13
Importance of Having a Usual Health Care Provider ..........................................14
The Likelihood of Having a Usual Health Care Provider .....................................15
Getting Care Outside of the U.S. ......................................................................18
Profile of Latinos Lacking a Usual Health Care Provider.....................................19
Why Don’t People Have a Usual Place for Health Care?....................................21
Folk Healing ...................................