Dr. Liliana Rojas-Guyler's discussion about health issues for latinos in the US was very engaging in terms of what we need to be aware of in terms of latinos and even just the lower SES students in our classrooms. She provided us with a great number of facts about different reasons why latino health is declining in the years after the migrate to the United States. Previously, I knew that the language, transportation, and poor living conditions were impeding latino health, but I had not considered that there were also cultural reasons for why the health may be declining. She mentioned, for example, that many times people will not go to the doctor because they are prioritizing their families and other things going on in their families' lives. It would be of great benefit to the latino community if there was better knowledge of these issues and of the fact that latinos are more likely to die from the diseases that they have largely because they wait so long to go to the doctor.
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