diabetes and heart disease

STUDY: DOCTOR SHORTAGE FOR BOOMING LATINO POPULATION IN CA, U.S.

 

By Suzanne Porter, Public News Service

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April 22, 2015 (San Diego’s East County)--Over the past 30 years, the Latino population in the United States has risen by 243 percent. But during that same period, according to a UCLA study of census data, the number of Latino doctors has decreased 22 percent.


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