University of Pittsburgh's: Pittsburgh Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2012: A Focus on Healthcare

Dr. Diego Chaves-Gnecco and Dr. Patricia Documet will be presenting on health care issues in Pittsburgh's Hispanic Community on Wednesday Oct 3. Details are below.

“Providing Health Care for an Invisible Community: Salud Para Niños Celebrating 10 Years of Service”
by Diego Chaves-Gnecco, MD, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Director and Founder Salud Para Niños, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

“De la Mano con la Salud”: A Network of Latino Men”
by Patricia Documet, MD, DrPH, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

Refreshments to follow. Free and open to the community.

Sponsors:
Office of Community Relations, University of Pittsburgh
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Mayor’s Office, City of Pittsburgh

 

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The new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE are out for 2010 for each county and state in the US.  The overall uninsured rate for Pennsylvania is 12.1% (with a margin of error or MOE of +/- 0.2%), up from 11.7% in 2009 and 10.6% in 2008.  The total uninsured is estimated to be 1,250,000 (MOE +/- 20,000) up from 1,080,000 (MOE +/-18,800) in 2008 when the recession began.

gender	%2010	MOE +/- %	% 2009	MOE +/- %	% 2008	MOE +/- %
Male	13.3	0.3	13.3	0.3	11.7	0.3
Female	10.8	0.3	10.0	0.2	9.5	0.2

 

The Census Bureau provides gender level estimates at the state and county level for Pennsylvania and the US.  The male and female rates are summarized at the state level for Pennsylvania.  While the male rates was unchanged from 2009, the female rate increased by 0.8% (outside the MOE of +/- 0.3%).  Male uninsured rates are still well ahead of female in PA.

 

year	% uninsured White	MOE +/- %	% uninsured Black	MOE +/- %	% uninsured Hispanic	MOE +/- %
2010	10.40	0.20	16.10	0.70	23.00	1.00
2009	10.10	0.20	16.20	0.70	22.60	1.00
2008	9.10	0.20	15.10	0.70	21.50	1.00

Above is an updated graphic on where the states stand on Medicaid expansion. The ones that are definitely not participating have some of the highest rates in the deep south such as Texas at 26.3% and Florida at 25.3% (also with high Hispanic populations).  Wisconsin previously stated they were definitely not participating but now are listed as undecided.  Pennsylvania is still mum and probably won't decide until after the election.  The Census Bureau has an interactive data and mapping tool that you can use for all counties and states in the US.

I will have county level gender and overall analysis in upcoming posts to try to tease some of these gender and racial trends apart.  Some counties are almost all white in PA.  I'll leave you now with this video clip from the Daily Show which reported on Mexico's healthcare system in 2008 which shows that healthcare is not the reason why they come here.  I posted this in the first PUSH blog post and it seems just as relevant now.

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States not participating in Medicaid Expansion So Far

Texas now added itself to the five other states above in dark red which will not participate in the ACA medicaid expansion even though it leads the nation in the percent uninsured at 26.3% and is correlated most strongly with income and the % Latino population at the county level. Here is Texas Gov. Rick Perry's justification:

Pennsylvania is listed in the top graphic as undecided toward participating.  Ezra Klein believes all states will eventually sign up as they are reimbursed.  The right graphic shows four of the six states, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, having having some of the highest within 200% of federal poverty (Mississippi, try living on that governors) and uninsured (Texas) rates in the US. South Carolina and Wisconsin had  19.4% and 10.6% uninsured rates and 30.9% and 20.9% 200% poverty rates in 2009 respectively.

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In 2009 when President Obama was presenting the affordable care act to Congress, Rep. Joe Wilson famously called out "you lie" when he stated that illegal immigrants would not be covered.  He wasn't lying.  On Feb 25 I did a presentation on census data for Pennsylvania's and Texas' uninsured as it relates to their respective Hispanic/Latino population.  In 2006 the city of Hazleton PA passed a law making English the official language of the town and making it illegal to rent apartments to illegal immigrants and to hire them (Their mayor at the time Lou Barletta is now a US Congressman).  The slides below are not necessarily with respect to immigrant status but the analysis I did reveals some patterns which I believe warrants further investigation.  Dr. Patricia Documet had some good comments on my presentation and data. 

Latino rates in pennsylvania’s uninsured

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In the Americas, Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Canada provide universal coverage and are close to the United States in life expectancy as can be seen in this link for an online graph from Gapminder for life expectancy and income www.bit.ly/y205Ix (the graph cannot be embedded here.  It is interactive and can the labels can be arranged to make more readable by dragging with the mouse).  Other Latin American countries in the graph are moving towards universal coverage and are catching up to the US.  A similar pattern can be seen in the graph for infant mortality www.bit.ly/wFffeF.

You can see a program on health issues in Pittsburgh's Latino community at the link below with Dr Diego Chaves and Dr. Patricia Documet.

WQED Multimedia: TV :: Horizons

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