{"id":18853,"date":"2016-03-10T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=18853"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:48:45","slug":"hispanic-women-who-identify-as-white-are-healthier-than-those-who-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2016\/03\/hispanic-women-who-identify-as-white-are-healthier-than-those-who-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic women who identify as white are healthier than those who don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the SAGE\u00a0media release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><strong>Hispanic women who identify as Black or another race have worse functional health than their counterparts who identify as White<\/strong>, according to new research. This research is part of a new special issue of <em>Research on Aging<\/em> (ROA, a journal from SAGE Publishing) focused on aging and health among Hispanic populations in the United States and in Latin America.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p><strong>Looking at data from 42,908 U.S. Hispanic women, ages 18-85, from 1997 to 2011, Chinn and Hummer examined the relationship between race and certain functional limitations related to the body<\/strong> &#8212; inabilities or difficulties in performing daily activities such as bending or kneeling, walking a quarter mile, grasping objects, etc. The researchers found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among those born in the U.S., <strong>Hispanic women who identify as Black have a 31% higher rate of functional limitations<\/strong> than those who identify as White while those who identify as other races have a 22% higher rate of functional limitations.<\/li>\n<li>Among the women born outside of the U.S., Hispanic women who identify as White have a 1.5 % lower rate of functional limitations relative to other race Hispanic women and a 2.6% lower rate of functional limitations relative to Hispanic women who identify as Black Hispanic, despite different geographic or socioeconomic conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over 25% of the U.S.-born Hispanic women who identify as Black reported living below the poverty line<\/strong> while about 16% of U.S.-born Hispanic women who identify as White or other races reported living in poverty.<\/li>\n<li>U.S.-born Hispanic women living below the poverty level had a<strong> 74% higher rate of functional limitations compared to Hispanic women not living in poverty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinn and Hummer continued, &#8220;Racial identity&#8211;or at least the distinction between identifying as Black or White&#8211;may have particular salience for the health of Hispanic adults among the second and higher generations. <strong>One strong possibility for this is that U.S.-born Black Hispanics simply have greater exposure to the harsh reality of being Black in American society than foreign-born Black Hispanics<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the SAGE\u00a0media release: Hispanic women who identify as Black or another race have worse functional health than their counterparts who identify as White, according to new research. This research&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2016\/03\/hispanic-women-who-identify-as-white-are-healthier-than-those-who-dont\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,367,344],"tags":[16,82,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18864,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}