The health community has known for decades that Latinos as a group have better health outcomes despite having less access to health and high poverty rates. This has been referred to as the “Hispanic paradox.”
A recent study on lung cancer out of the University of Miami A University of Miami study confirmed the paradox showing that Latinos (native and non-native to the U.S.) had a 15% lower risk of dying from lung cancer than white or Black patients. Past research has indicated that Latinos also have lower infant mortality rates and better survival rates for heart attacks than others from similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
Why is this the case? Strong family ties? Genetic makeup? Healthier diets among immigrants? Now that we know a substantial difference exists, future research will have to take a look at why.
Read more at the Sun Sentinel.
About Adriana Villavicencio
The paradox is linked to acculturation level :the higher acculturation level the worse ur health outcomes.
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That’s cause we all got aunts from the old country who don’t mind soving some weird herb or remidy down our throat hahahahhaahahhahahahahahahah
It’s al the chilies and limes they eat healthier!
Is the goya sazon man !!!
But Hispanic and Latinos are not a race. So if you are trying to break it down racially, the article is bogus. There are pure white and pure black and pure Native American people and sometimes a mixture of everything that call themselves “Hispanic” or Latino but that still doesn’t constitutes a single race. Besides, just because someone is a Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Dominican doesn’t make them the same genetically. Racially and genetically we are so different it’s not funny. Good health? Attribute it to eating rice and beans and fiber? High AIDS rate? Maybe too promiscuous and ignorant of safer sex?
The Latino Paradox is linked to acculturation level: The higher ur acculturation the worse off ur health.
She uses “Black” as a proper noun, yet “white” as a lowercase common noun….in every article I see from her that mentions the two. Is this an attempt at entry-level propaganda? awww that’s sweet.
Being Latino is agenda driven. Make what you want of it. But there it is.
What agenda would that be Mario? Everyone is welcome to voice their own opinion, its just that most, if not all of the right wingers on BL choose to complain instead of contributing themselves. It’s not BL’s fault it seems to drift to the left when none of you are proactive enough to do something about it.
Awesome idea just popped into my head. Maybe you should create your own page instead of accusing others of having an agenda!! DUDE!!! That would be awesome!!!
Mario Ramirez asks: “But Hispanic and Latinos are not a race. So if you are trying to break it down racially, the article is bogus.”
So what is your point? The writer didn’t mention “race” once. And in case you’re unaware of this, there are things we call populations in demographic studies. Populations include various groupings of people, racially defined or not.
Very interesting article.