** MEDIA ADVISORY **
WEDNESDAY March 25 10 a.m. EDT – POLL RELEASE PRESS CALL AND WEBINAR
To Join via Phone: Dial 1-877-876-9176 with Passcode “Latino Health”
To Join via Webinar: Details Below
Groundbreaking National Latino Health and Immigration Survey Gauges Attitudes & Experiences on the Affordable Care Act, Health & Immigration
RWJF Center at the University of New Mexico to Release Groundbreaking Poll on Press Call/Webinar Wednesday March 25, 2015
On a press call and webinar on Wednesday, March 25th at 10 AM EDT, the RWJF Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico will present the findings of its groundbreaking national poll on Latinos’ experiences with the changing healthcare marketplace, outlook on immigration, and experiences with discrimination. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico and conducted by Latino Decisions, the National Latino Health Survey provides the most in-depth views to date on Latinos’ experiences with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the five years since its passage. In addition, the poll includes Latino perspectives on personal health and well-being, and views about immigration and race in their daily lives.
Embargoed copies of the poll toplines are available upon request by emailing Sylvia Manzano at: [email protected] (embargoed until 11 a.m. EDT on March 24).
WHAT: National Latino Health Survey Poll Release – new nationwide poll featuring Latinos’ in-depth views and experiences with Obamacare/ACA; assessments of personal health; and outlook on how race and immigration shape their daily lives.
WHEN: Wednesday March 25th at 10 a.m. EDT
WHO: Gabriel Sanchez, PhD, Executive Director of the RWJF Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico and Director of Research at Latino Decisions. Eduardo Vargas, PhD, Post-doctoral Scholar, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Francisco Pedraza, PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University, and former Fellow of the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
TO JOIN: Via Phone, Dial 1-877-876-9176 with Passcode “Latino Health.”
For Webinar Access (PC only) visit: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/connexevent/join with Meeting ID: “LATINOHEALTH” and Password: “ATTEND”
Non PC-Users can follow the SLIDE DECK posted HERE during the presentation.
The telephone poll of 1,005 Latino adults in the United States was fielded January 29-March 12 2015 via live-calls (not robo/IVR) to cell phones and landlines, and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
