Making the invisible visible: maternal and child health inequalities for Latin Americans in the UK

The Latin American community—encompassing individuals with heritage from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, and identified by this inclusive term rather than the US-origin classification ‘Hispanic’ which excludes Brazilians, implies an Iberian rather than postcolonial identity, and flattens the population’s rich Indigenous, Afro-Latin, and mestizo diversity—is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United Kingdom, yet remains “statistically invisible” in health policy and data.