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The Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Teen Van visits the San Jose Conservation Corp in San Jose on Oct. 10, 2023. The mobile clinic helps unhoused, at-risk, uninsured, and underinsured youth.For decades, the varying health outcomes of different racial and ethnic populations in Santa Clara County flew under most people’s radar. The absence of useful and specific data conspired to conceal this fact.
For example, diabetes is a chronic illness that can damage the heart and kidneys, require frequent hospitalizations and lead to death. Latino and Pacific Islander residents with diabetes are less likely to have their blood sugar at healthy levels, leading to poorer health outcomes and expensive hospitalization.
Even when services are available, many feel they receive unfair treatment based on their race or ethnicity. The share of Latino residents who report never having experienced unfair treatment when seeking health care lags 13 to 18 percentage points behind all other groups, except American Indians and Alaska Natives. People who experience discrimination or culturally unresponsive medical care are less likely to finish a course of treatment, return for a follow-up visit and improve their health.
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