Latino Health

The suicide rate for Hispanics in the US has increased significantly over the past decade. The reasons are varied, citing factors such as language barriers, poverty and a lack of bilingual mental health professionals.

Latinos are still more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID — so doctors and activists hope younger, more educated voices can convince the vulnerable to get vaccinated.

Suburbs in South Florida that have swung toward Donald Trump are where the Obamacare health care program is more popular than anywhere else in the country

Medicaid enrollees in Florida face long wait times to get through to call centers for help reapplying — especially Spanish speakers. With hundreds of thousands of people removed from the state's Medicaid rolls since April — and many of them still eligible for the program — advocates fear a 'fiasco.'

Cancer is the leading cause of death for Latinos and Hispanics in the U.S. One rare form of the disease strikes those groups at a greater rate and at a much younger age than the rest of the population.

Two rapid-testing initiatives the Biden administration released in the past week are inaccessible to some residents of multifamily housing, people who don’t speak English well, or those without internet access.

Florida’s Hispanic residents are more likely than whites to contract COVID-19 and die from the disease, yet early vaccination data shows they’re getting the shot at lower rates. Coronavirus vaccine misinformation and mistrust are contributing to the disparity.

A study was recently published by an associate professor of social work at Florida Gulf Coast University , and it looks at how the people living in...