Hispanic Essays and Research Papers

The United States continues to be a melting pot of cultures and is home to a variety of ethnic populations. Because of the existing cultural diversity, health care professionals are required to be educated about different cultures and provide treatment that is specific and considerate of a patient’s cultural background. As of July 2015, the…

The Hispanic paradox also referred to as the epidemiologic paradox is the epidemiological finding that Hispanic and Latino individuals have a decrease socioeconomic reputation than Caucasians. however the Hispanics and Caucasians have similar toddler mortality price, decrease age adjusted dying charge, and lowest price for low birth weight infants. almost thirty years agone, Kyriakos Markides…

Social Problem According to the United States Census Bureau (2014), in 2014 Latinos in the United States accounted for 17.4% of the U.S. population (approximately 55.4 million). Since 1980 there has been a 300% increase in the Latino/Hispanic population in the United States and approximately 40% being Latino immigrants. Latino children now make up 22%…

I was watching the movie, “A Day Without Mexicans,” very recently and I remember back in 2004, everyone commented about how true many of the scenes from the movie, were very true. Believe it or not, many low-class types of jobs such as maids, construction workers, roofing landscaping, are exclusively for the Hispanic class. I…

I interviewed my friend and co-worker Cheri. She is a nurse that currently lives in Wilber, Nebraska, with her boyfriend and two children: Devin and Berkley. Devin was born in 2003, and Berkley was born in 2008. Cheri was 27 when she had Devin, and 33 when she had Berkley. Cheri had both of her…

It’s no secret that Hispanic cultures have had a huge impact on America throughout the years. It’s also no secret that Hispanic cultures have also had influences from previous civilizations such as the Mayans, Incas and Aztecs. Some of these influences include: language, arts, traditions and so on. According to History For Kids: Aztecs, Maya,…

The social status is closely intertwined with the other factors previously presented such as cultural and economic statuses of the disease. However, there are still particular factors that can be analyzed to depict the influence of social factors on the prevention, screening, and treatment of prostate cancer. The social aspects of prostate cancer include environmental…

Latinos have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become the largest minority group in the U.S. There are an estimated 55 million Hispanic people in the United States, comprising over 17% of the population. California is the state with the largest Hispanic population an estimated 15 million, followed by Texas…

Research has shown that the governmental labels imposed to categorize Latinos or Hispanics are not what they associate with and are too general for them to identify with. It is becoming more common for them to find their own identities based on prior or new configurations of their environment. The issue of identity is those…

As a human being it is interesting that we are so alike but different at the same time. We join and create groups so that we feel apart of something. What if you don’t feel like you fit in, that your different? Reality is your not alone. For millennia women and men have fought, and…