Immigration, acculturation, and health the Mexican diaspora /

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: Reichman, Jill S.
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
Edice:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Témata:
On-line přístup:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
Obsah:
  • Mexican immigrants, health care, and acculturation
  • Modeling and measuring acculturation
  • Methodological considerations, data collection, and analysis
  • Sociodemographic profile
  • Models of health, models of illness
  • Change over time in health prescriptions
  • Cognitive models of how people should behave when sick
  • Therapeutic options: awareness and usage of complementary and alternative medicine
  • Crossing boundaries: geographical, political, and religious
  • Diagnosis and treatment efficacy
  • Antibiotic usage and rate of acculturation
  • Nervios, stress, sadness, depression: the evolution of a mind/body discourse
  • Conclusion.