About 12% of military veterans are Latino, and that’s expected to grow to 15% by 2045.
: About 12% of vets are Black and 8% are Latino. Those numbers are projected to grow to 15% and 12% respectively by 2045, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Disparities in access to treatment can have wide-ranging consequences, from mental health problems to complicating adjustment to civilian life.Journal of the American Medical Association late last month, looked at wait times for over a million veterans seeking cardiology or orthopedic appointments, two of the most common specialty services that the VA provides.
The researchers found wait times for Hispanic vets increased by five days for cardiology services and four days for orthopedic ones from 2019 to the 2021 fiscal year compared to the wait times for white non-Hispanics.What they're saying: "It might be that white veterans were better informed about ways to accelerate those wait periods, whereas Latino and Black veterans maybe weren't," says Raul “Danny” Vargas, founder and CEO of the"The bottom line from my perspective is that Latino veterans continue to be an increasingly important and significant portion of the overall veteran population, but there are nuances and subtle differences in terms of how that population needs to be engaged or approached.
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