Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book updates interested readers with recent information and offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care.

Antonio Furino, Author. Philip M. Allen is Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Foreign Languages, and Coordinator of Liberal Studies at Frostburg State University, in the University of Maryland System. He is a former Foreign Service Officer in Madagascar and Germany. He is author of several books on the Indian Ocean, and has held three Senior Fulbright Lectureships, including one at the University of Antananarivo in 1999-2000.

Issues and Value Questions -- The Issues: An Overview -- Cooperative Action for Minority Health Policy -- Access to Health Care for Hispanics -- Latino Health Indicators and the Underclass Model: From Paradox to New Policy Models -- Education, Productivity, and the Nation's Future -- Health Risks for Hispanics -- Type II Diabetes in Mexican Americans: A Public Health Challenge -- Major Infectious Diseases Causing Excess Morbidity in the Hispanic Population -- The Health Status of U.S. Hispanic Children -- Health Policy and the Elderly Hispanic -- Traumatic Injury in Hispanic Americans: A Distinct Entity -- Oral Health of Hispanics: Epidemiology and Risk Factors -- Economic and Social Considerations -- Formulating Health Policy in a Multicultural Society -- Health Insurance Coverage and Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans -- The Economic Costs of an Unhealthy Latino Population -- Health Care on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Epilogue -- Searching for Solutions -- Appendix Additional Contributions to the Debate: Abstracts from Recent Research