Most Latino Healthcare Workers Say that Racism Against Patients is a Crisis or a Major Problem

Mental health care workers were more likely to say racism was an issue of magnitude (68%) compared to to all health care workers (52%) (Credit: Martha Dominguez de Gouveia/Unsplash.)

A majority of Latino healthcare workers have seen racial or ethnic discrimination in their workplace and consider the issue to be a crisis or a major problem, according to a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

The survey showed that Latinos and Blacks were more likely to consider this a problem than Asian-American and White counterparts. Overall, 26% of Latino respondents called it a crisis and 34% a major problem but not a crisis, making them the second-most worried demographic behind Blacks.