Nursing Healthcare: Addressing Health Disparities in Hispanic Community

This article discusses the health disparities faced by the Hispanic community in the US and the role of nursing informatics in addressing them. It also emphasizes the importance of culturally competent care in enhancing therapeutic relationships.

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Hispanics belong to one of the minority communities who are seen to suffer from health
disparity in the nation of the United States. Researchers are of the opinion that Hispanic health is
shaped by factors such as the language as well as cultural barriers, lack of access to the
preventive care as well as lack of health insurance. The Centre for the disease control and the
prevention had put forward certain important causes of illness and death among the minority
groups that are much higher in percentage than the majority white population (Li et al., 2015).
These are seen to include heart disorders, unintentional injuries, stroke, diabetes and many
others. Some of the risk factors that are more common to affect this minority group in
comparison to the whites are asthma, COPD, obesity, HIV, liver disorder and suicide.
The specialty of nursing information technology is that this type of specialty integrates
nursing science with multiple information management as well as analytical sciences. This helps
in the identification, definition, management as well as help in communication data,
development of information knowledge and even wisdom in the nursing practice. This specialty
helps in managing and communicating data as well as information to the consumers, nurses,
patients, patients as well as healthcare providers. This would help the professionals in collecting
important statistical data about different aspects of the community and would help in collecting
information about them which when provide to nurses would ensure best quality care for them.
They have poor financial security, low educational attainment, low language fluency and many
others that affect their health behaviors (Creamer et al., 2016). Therefore, nursing informatics
would help the other nurses to know about these issues and thereby help them and guide them to
ensure best quality are.
Culturally competent care is extremely important for enhancing the development of
therapeutic relationship with the patients. This would ensure maintenance of autonomy and

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dignity of the communities making them feel that the caregivers are aware of their cultural
preferences, traditional and inhibitions. More the diversity of the patients is respected and
interventions are planned by the effective participation of the community people, the better will
be their acceptance and compliance with the care. Hence, nursing informatics play an important
role in ensuring mitigation of the issues and ensuring health equity among different diverse
groups by proper nursing-intervention implementation.

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References:
Creamer, J., Attridge, M., Ramsden, M., Cannings‐John, R., & Hawthorne, K. (2016). Culturally
appropriate health education for Type 2 diabetes in ethnic minority groups: an updated
Cochrane Review of randomized controlled trials. Diabetic Medicine, 33(2), 169-183.
Li, Y., Harrington, C., Temkin-Greener, H., You, K., Cai, X., Cen, X., & Mukamel, D. B.
(2015). Deficiencies In Care At Nursing Homes And Racial/Ethnic Disparities Across
Homes Fell, 2006–11. Health Affairs, 34(7), 1139-1146.