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Access To Healthcare For The Hispanic/Latino Population, Rebecca Loritz
Access To Healthcare For The Hispanic/Latino Population, Rebecca Loritz
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses
Background: The U.S. Hispanic/Latino population faces significant barriers to accessing healthcare. The most common barriers Latinos face are language barriers, cost barriers, immigration statuses, insurance coverage barriers, transportation barriers, health literacy and education barriers, as well as lack of access to healthcare providers. These barriers impact not only their ability to access healthcare but also the quality of healthcare they receive.
Purpose: To synthesize the existing literature evaluating that identifies barriers to healthcare.
Methods: CINAHL and PubMed were systematically searched, along with a manual internet search for journal articles that studied access to care issues for the Latino population in …