Hispanic Preferences for Health Care Providers and Health Care Information

• DOI: 10.1300/j026v14n01_06
• Publication Date: 2005-12-08T15:59:44Z
• Authors: Jerry C. Hudson; Elizabeth Watts
• Keywords: Telephone survey; Information source (mathematics)

In a 1994 telephone survey, only 13% of 522 adult Hispanic respondents in the Southwest used media as main source information for physicians, while 19% regarding health services. Family and friends were sources. About 75% had family physician with mother (68%) making care decisions family. A large majority said that neither physician's sex, nor race factors choosing physicians.