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Women health care consumers have a unique relationship to the health care delivery system. Hispanic women share that unique relationship, with other factors added. As women we relate to male gynecologists, surgeons, obstetricians, and pediatricians as 75 percent of the entire health system labor force, but as only 7 percent of the physicians. As Hispanic women we are confronted with discrimination and ignorance on the part of medical personnel regarding our health needs. Hispanic women, as a group, are the victims of unsafe health care, poor quality health care, and physical, social, and psychological stress.
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Sewell, S.S. (1980). Sterilization Abuse and Hispanic Women. In: Holmes, H.B., Hoskins, B.B., Gross, M. (eds) Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6005-9_17
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