Santa Clara County Latino health assessment results

Santa Clara County Latino health assessment results

Results of a Santa Clara County study shows just how big the gaps in health access and education have become for the local Latino community. The county’s Latino health assessment was ordered two years ago by Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas with the goal of not only finding community issues, but also identify solutions. “Too often our communities are invisible in the data and forgotten in the funding,” Arenas said. Here are some of th…

Santa Clara County conducted a study that showed that the Latino community faces great challenges in terms of health and quality of life. Supervisor Sylvia Arenas promoted the so-called ‘Latin Health Assessment’, a collection of data on housing, health, economics and education. “Almost half of the suicides that happen in this county are from Latinos, which I did not anticipate,” Arenas said. It was also revealed that more than 70% of the detaine…