ABSTRACT
There are two salient issues beginning to impact drastically on health and social services in the nation: nativist anti-immigrant hysteria among the populace and President Clinton's national health care proposal. This article is neither an examination of the nativist anti-immigrant hysteria nor of the merits of the President's health care plan. Rather, the focus here is to propose a model to improve the utilization of health and social services to Latinos despite nativism and outcome of the final health care program.
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Community Health Services/statistics & numerical data , Hispanic or Latino , Models, Organizational , Social Work/organization & administration , California , Career Mobility , Community Health Services/organization & administration , Community Health Services/standards , Cultural Characteristics , Health Personnel , Health Services Accessibility , Humans , Organizational Policy , Personnel Selection , Quality of Health Care , Social Work/standards , Texas , WorkforceSubject(s)
Health Occupations/history , Minority Groups/history , History, 20th Century , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
This article discusses the problem of adequate minority representation in the health professions. Discussed here are some contours of the vexing problem of adequate minority participation in the health professions and a brief discussion of some programs that appear to be working. By "minority" here we mean underrepresented minorities in the health professions--Afro-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and native Americans. Asian Americans are not an underrepresented minority in this respect.
