We need to do more for them. Language is a major barrier to access. About 18 percent of those who said they had visited a doctor or clinic visit went to Mexico for that care. Fear of deportation also is a barrier. Money is a barrier because employers are not required to provide health insurance, and the few that do also require premiums or co-payments that workers can t afford.
Money clearly is a barrier to good nutrition as well.
Too many fried foods. Add culture, transportation, education and inconvenient clinic hours, and that s a lot of barriers to health care. An array of cultural barriers include traditions of self-medication and the purchase of medicine and injections in Mexican pharmacies without a prescription. The health survey Villarejo led has received the attention of state legislators, and a task force has been created to propose solutions to the state s farmworker health crisis. In the meantime, nurses may be the best-positioned health care professionals for providing assistance.