Healthcare Hispanic Community and Healthcare This Paper Term Paper

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Hispanic Community and Healthcare

This paper is an examination of how the Hispanic community experiences healthcare. The data from a number of articles related to the subject form the basis for the conclusions reached in the analysis.

One study looked at whether Hispanic-specific training should be included for healthcare worker training. It was found that there is a serious lack of training that is currently implemented regardless the community examined. Healthcare workers were unaware of social conventions that were normal among their Hispanic clients which limited the effectiveness of the healthcare treatment given. Because women were unable to discuss personal problems with male healthcare workers and males had similar issues with females, it was difficult for the various agencies to be truly effective. The recommendation, of course, was to include a training curriculum that included cultural training.

Another issue that Hispanic individuals faced is that they were underrepresented in hospice arrangements. The initial conjecture was that in many Hispanic cultures the family and community took care of the infirm at end-of-life. This may play a role, but the authors of the study also wanted to determine if the access to hospice was lessened because the individuals within the Hispanic community eligible for hospice did not receive the same access to healthcare prior to needing hospice services. The team found that the underrepresentation had more to do with a lack of access to healthcare interventions that could have led to an individual gaining hospice rather than the fact that hospice was…