Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Latinos.

Autor: Findling MG; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Bleich SN; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Casey LS; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Blendon RJ; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Benson JM; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Sayde JM; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts., Miller C; Research, Evaluation, and Learning Unit, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health services research [Health Serv Res] 2019 Dec; Vol. 54 Suppl 2, pp. 1409-1418. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 30.
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13216
Abstrakt: Objective: To examine experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination among Latinos in the United States, which broadly contribute to their poor health outcomes.
Data Source and Study Design: Data come from a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey including 803 Latinos and a comparison group of 902 non-Hispanic white US adults, conducted January-April 2017.
Methods: We calculated the percent of Latinos reporting discrimination in several domains, including health care. We used logistic regression to compare the Latino-white difference in odds of discrimination, and among Latinos only to examine variation by socioeconomic status and country of birth.
Principal Findings: One in five Latinos (20 percent) reported experiencing discrimination in clinical encounters, while 17 percent avoided seeking health care for themselves or family members due to anticipated discrimination. A notable share of Latinos also reported experiencing discrimination with employment (33 percent applying for jobs; 32 percent obtaining equal pay/promotions), housing (31 percent), and police interactions (27 percent). In adjusted models, Latinos had significantly higher odds than whites for reporting discrimination in health care visits (OR: 3.18, 95% CI: 1.61, 6.26) and across several other domains. Latinos with college degrees had significantly higher odds of reporting discrimination in multiple domains than those without college degrees, with few differences between foreign-born and US-born Latinos.
Conclusions: Latinos in the United States report experiencing widespread discrimination in health care and other areas of their lives, at significantly higher levels than whites. Being born in the United States and earning a college degree are not protective against discrimination, suggesting that further health and social policy efforts to eliminate discrimination are needed.
(© 2019 The Authors. Health Services Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Health Research and Educational Trust.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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