Immigration, acculturation, and health the Mexican diaspora /

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Glavni autor: Reichman, Jill S.
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
Serija:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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  • 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.