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Hispanic/Latino health issues explored.

SHEER NUMBERS compel interest. At the recent Midwest Regional Meeting on Hispanic/Latino Health, held in Chicago, Ill—part of the Surgeon General's National Hispanic/Latino Health Initiative that Antonia C. Novello, MD, MPH (Surgeon General of the US Public Health Service), introduced with a workshop in Washington, DC, last September—the ever-increasing presence of people of Hispanic descent in American society was a major theme. Today there are 22 million such persons in the United States, two thirds of them born here. By the year 2000 there will be 31 million, and by 2050 the projected figure is 96 million. Hispanics are the single largest and also the youngest ethnic minority in the country (their number has grown 50% in the last decade and one third are 18 to 24 years of age), they have the highest fertility rate and largest families, and lack of adequate health care is but one of their