Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care. It addresses the conceptual, institutional, and policy elements of Hispanic health problems and their solutions.
Part One: Issues and Value Questions
1. The Issues: An Overview
2. Cooperative Action for Minority Health Policy
3. Access to Health Care for Hispanics
4. Latino Health Indicators and the Underclass Model: From Paradox to New Policy Models
5. Education, Productivity, and the Nation's Future Part Two: Health Risks for Hispanics
6. Type II Diabetes in Mexican Americans: A Public Health Challenge
7. Major Infectious Diseases Causing Excess Morbidity in the Hispanic Population
8. The Health Status of U.S. Hispanic Children
9. Health Policy and the Elderly Hispanic
10. Traumatic Injury in Hispanic Americans: A Distinct Entity
11. Oral Health of Hispanics: Epidemiology and Risk Factors Part Three: Economic and Social Considerations
12. Formulating Health Policy in a Multicultural Society
13. Health Insurance Coverage and Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Americans
14. The Economic Costs of an Unhealthy Latino Population
15. Health Care on the U.S.-Mexico Border Part Four: Epilogue
16. Searching for Solutions
Antonio Furino is professor of economics and director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he is teaching and heading research on the economic, entrepreneurial, and policy aspects of health professions and health care services. He is a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas at Austin, where he is engaged in studies of human resource development and productivity. His writings are multidisciplinary with a focus on the policy implications of health and human resources problems.
