User:Alr152/Race and health in the United States

I will be adding more information to the section "Racism." It is lacking some facts about African American women and mental illness paired with physical illness. I will use more sources to find important importation and add it to that section to make it more informative. Mina

The Latinos and Hispanic section could use more information on how there are disproportions in the healthcare that they receive. I will specifically be focusing on Hispanic women and the barriers they face when wanting to access care for infertility. My sources will be used to support my claims.

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 * African American women are shown to be more susceptible to cardiovascular disease mostly due to external life stressors (Lin, Thompson, 2009). Mina
 * African American feel they must be independent, silent, and often self sacrifice, as a form of learned behavior or survival tactics, based off of years of discrimination. Mina

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There have been consistent reporting of significant gaps in access and utilisation of fertility care among the hispanic community. A national survey from 1995 by the NCHS found that Hispanic women reported infertility more often than caucasian women, however they are underrepresented in the population receiving infertility treatment (Kamorowski and Jain, 2022). Fertility has an important cultural significance in Hispanic families and the women that struggle with infertility face many barriers to receive proper fertility care due to the disparities and racial bias in the medical treatment of their sexual and reproductive health. Often times, couples do not seek infertility care because of lack of socioeconomic resources and lack of awareness of resources, which then causes an effect on the marital relationship as well as their gender value within their culture (Becker et al., 2006).