Immigration, acculturation, and health
Subtitle: the Mexican diaspora
By: Jill S. Reichman
Series: The new Americans; New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Health and hygiene -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County; Mexican Americans -- Medical care -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County; Health attitudes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-288) and index
Table of contents: title: Mexican immigrants, health care, and acculturation; title: Modeling and measuring acculturation; title: Methodological considerations, data collection, and analysis; title: Sociodemographic profile; title: Models of health, models of illness; title: Change over time in health prescriptions; title: Cognitive models of how people should behave when sick; title: Therapeutic options: awareness and usage of complementary and alternative medicine; title: Crossing boundaries: geographical, political, and religious; title: Diagnosis and treatment efficacy; title: Antibiotic usage and rate of acculturation; title: Nervios, stress, sadness, depression: the evolution of a mind/body discourse; title: Conclusion