However, many times community members do not even get to use these minimal services because of lack of transportation, food, social support, or knowledge of services. Their program to improve health through changing habits and improving the environment did increase enrollment of patients and revenues for preventive services, which raised the quality of care to all in the community. Marc Fero, B. A., Anthropology, Sonoma State University. Health and Illness in a Transnational Hispanic Family. The transnational Latino practitioner has a choice of strategies for disease prevention and curing.
Observations reveal different definitions of illness, prevention, curing and health.
Understanding the value of both approaches will benefit Hispanic transnational migrants and aid biomedical personnel in delivering information for community health program. A Course Outline and Sample Lesson. Increasingly diverse and conflicting worldviews demand integrative education. My presentation will interactively engage the symposium audience with a sample lesson designed to clarify these objectives. Visual aids and the socratic teaching method will be used to examine notions of self identity and purpose, ranging from collectivistic to individualistic world views, followed by dialogue on how they might be reconciled.