Immigration, acculturation, and health the Mexican diaspora /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New York :
LFB Scholarly Pub.,
2006.
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| Series: | New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Acceso en liña: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.