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Eric Muñoz, MD, MBA

JAMA. 1988;260(18):2711-2712.

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AMERICA'S new minority group is coming of age: the Hispanic. Surges in Hispanic birth rates and legal and illegal immigration make this growing component of American society a population to be reckoned with. Hispanics totaled 21 million Americans in 1987 (7.9% of the US population).¹ The Hispanic population is expected to increase 40% by the year 2000 (to almost 30 million people). Birth rates for Hispanics are three to four times that of the non-Hispanic white population. Most of us in health care see a lot of this new "poor" American in our clinics and emergency departments, sick and Spanish speaking. Hispanics, with a median age of 23 years, are younger than the US population as a whole. Hispanics (on average) are poor. About 30% of all Hispanic families are living below the poverty level compared with 15% of the total US population. One of every five Hispanic adults, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, and the Association of Puerto Ricans in Science and Engineering, New York.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Research Division, Department of Surgery, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11042 (Dr Muñoz).

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