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Laredo and Webb County Community Statistics
Uninsurance/Underinsurance
According to the National Cancer Institute, Hispanics living in the U.S. (96% of Laredo’s population) are five times less likely to have health insurance than those of other races.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics were the least insured of any ethnic group in 2003. 32.7% had no health insurance, the same percentage as in 2002.
Approximately 78,000 residents of Laredo have no insurance, one-third (33%) of the population (Webb County Partners for Access 2003 report). Laredo has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation (of cities with population greater than 100,000 people).
Since 1994, Webb County has been designated a Medically Underserved Area (MUA)/Medically Underserved Population (MUP) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Primary Healthcare.
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Health
Women's health
According to the March of Dimes, Hispanic women are twice as likely not to seek early prenatal care. According to the Texas Department of Health, of the 1,000 teen births in Laredo and Webb County in 2003, half received inadequate prenatal care.
Texas has the third highest cancer rate in the nation. Hispanic women have 1.7 times the cervical cancer rate of non-Hispanic white women.
Diabetes
Hispanic/Latino Americans are 1.5 times more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic whites of similar age. Mexican-Americans, the largest Hispanic/Latino subgroup, are more than twice as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites of similar age.
Texas Diabetes Center-TDH reports an estimated 48,996 Texans age 18 or older with diabetes have no health insurance.
Webb County is the number one county in Texas for morbidity and mortality due to diabetes.
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Hunger
Texas rates second in the nation for hungry families. (Source: America’s Second Harvest 2003)
More than three million individuals in Texas lived in poverty in 2000. More than one million of these were children. (Source: TACAA Food Journal October 18, 2002)
According to the latest national estimates, Texas’ overall poverty rate is 15 percent. Texas ranks eighth highest in the nation. (Source: Center for Public Priorities 2002)
It is estimated that 1.1 million children in Texas are hungry or at risk of hunger. This is 32% of all Texas children. (Source: Center for Public Priorities 2002)
Over 3.1 million people in Texas are food insecure, meaning they don’t always know where they will get the groceries or money for their next meal. This number includes approximately 874,000 Texans who may suffer from outright hunger—which means that at least one family member has skipped meals due to limited resources.
Texas continues to have a higher-than-average rate of hunger and food insecurity. From 2000-02, 10.8% of American households were food insecure, compared to 14.8% of households in Texas. Nationwide, 3.3% of households were hungry, compared to 4.1% in Texas.
One in ten children under 12 in Texas are hungry.
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Abuse
In Texas in 2002, 183,440 Family Violence Incidents were reported and 117 women were killed by their intimate partner (Information provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety)
In 2002, 11,257 adults received shelter from their abusive relationships and 17,629 children received shelter (Information provided by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission)
In 2002, the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) conducted a statewide poll on prevalence and attitudes on domestic violence:
74% of all Texans have either themselves, a family member and/or a friend have experienced some form of domestic violence.
47% of all Texans report having personally experienced at least one form of domestic violence, either severe, verbal and/or forced isolation from friends and family at some point in their lifetime.
31% of all Texans report that they have been severely abused at some point in their lifetime. Women report severe abuse at a higher rate than men.
77% of all Hispanic Texans indicate that either themselves, a family member and/or a friend have experienced some form of domestic violence.
5.2 million Hispanic Texans are personally affected by the epidemic of domestic violence. If the current prevalence rates remain the same, by the year 2030, more than 12.2 million Hispanic Texans could be personally affected by domestic violence.
64% of all Hispanic Texans indicate that they or a member of their family have experienced at least one form of domestic violence in their lifetime.
2 out of every 5 Hispanic Texas females (39%) reported experience severe abuse.
1 out of every 5 Hispanic Texas females (18%) reported being forced to have sex against their will.
40% of Hispanic Texans who reported experiencing at least one form of domestic violence took no action.
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