By looking at different Latino health surveys from U.S and Virginia will help for future data comparison with our data as well as give us further information about other Latino communities and the disparities they face. Currently, information will come from surveys, and different pilot programs that have compiled data about different Latino communities.
These surveys provide important profiles of Latinos in the United States and smaller communities. This information will hopefully compliment the census data
From the Pew Hispanic Center (PHC) survey of Latino adults (national representative sample of 4,014 hispanic adults. There is also an analysis of the data compiled from this survey at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764038/.
(http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/91.pdf)
(http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/91.pdf)
Another Hispanic/Latino Profile comes from the U.S department of Health and Human Services of Minority health. This website provides an overview of the demographics of Latinos in the U.S. This website also provides links to different census conducted.
From the “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States”
(http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239.pdf)
Overall, I am finding more surveys conducted on a national level rather than surveys on a community level. If you all have suggestions please let me know!
Sources:
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/91.pdf
I think we want more community-level (not national) surveys, so that would be a good way to start narrowing things down. Also, we talked about at dinner concentrating only on adults, not pediatric populations.
ReplyDeleteThat said, there's two goals here. 1) To get a picture of Latino health in the US and 2) To see how other people have studied it. So beyond the descriptive statistics and health outcomes, we also want to know about the methodology. How does our survey compare? How many people did they question?