Disparities in Healthcare Access Among the Scranton Latino Community

Abstract

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest in the northeastern region of PA. It is a metropolitan city (Norcross, 2016). It once flourished due to the success of the coal and garment industries. Now, tourist attractions such as the Steam Town National Historic Site are hallmarks of the city. In the 20th century, Scranton saw a large influx of immigration, especially European immigration. Italian and Irish were the biggest ethnic groups that immigrated to the area in the 20th century (Parsons, 2007). Up until the late 1980s, the Hispanic immigrant population was relatively small; however, that began to change as increasing numbers of Spanish-speaking immigrants created a second wave of immigration throughout the area (Parsons, 2007).

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Pimentel Morillo