{"id":12133,"date":"2020-09-17T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12133"},"modified":"2020-09-17T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:43:28","slug":"survey-black-hispanic-texans-cite-outliers-to-quality-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12133","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Black, Hispanic Texans cite outliers to quality health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blacks and Hispanics in Texas, at a higher percentage than Whites, say the state government should address economic and living conditions as public health priorities.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Photo: gabrielberophs\/Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By ROZ BROWN
<\/strong>Texas News Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOUSTON \u2013 To stay healthy, we\u2019re told to regularly see a doctor, but a new survey in Texas shows Blacks and Hispanics more than Whites believe nonmedical factors are equally important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Sasser, chief communications officer with the Episcopal Health Foundation, said the survey<\/a> showed the \u201clived experience\u201d of Black and Hispanic Texans reveals that health is not just how many trips you make to the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said for minorities, it also depends on whether you feel your community is safe, your level of education, immigration status, whether your air and water is clean and levels of stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGetting more access to the doctor is not going to solve everything,\u201d said Sasser. \u201cThe state needs to address all those other things outside the doctor\u2019s office that affects health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Foundation\u2019s survey found that 79% of Black and Hispanic adults in Texas said the quality of a person\u2019s housing is essential or very important to their health, compared with 62% of White adults who said the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A higher percentage of nonwhites also said the state government should address economic and living conditions as public health priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sasser noted that even before COVID-19 was shown to disproportionately affect older minority populations<\/a>, Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to appreciate the impact that underlying, nonmedical conditions have on their health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said while the White experience has long been considered the norm, the reality for nonwhites is a vastly different experience and state policies need to reflect that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you have diabetes, and you live in a place where you can\u2019t exercise and there\u2019s no healthy food options around that are affordable and you don\u2019t have access to a doctor,\u201d said Sasser, \u201cthat\u2019s a completely different experience than someone who has diabetes, has health insurance, lives in a nice neighborhood where they can jog each day and can go to Whole Foods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blacks and Hispanics in Texas reported more incidents of racism than Whites, and one in five said it\u2019s had a harmful effect on their health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service HOUSTON \u2013 To stay healthy, we\u2019re told to regularly see a doctor, but a new survey in Texas shows Blacks and Hispanics more than Whites believe nonmedical factors are equally important. Brian Sasser, chief communications officer with the Episcopal Health Foundation, said the survey showed the \u201clived experience\u201d of Black and Hispanic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12134,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions\/12134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}