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Immigration, acculturation, and health : the Mexican diaspora / Jill S. Reichman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reichman, Jill S.
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American women--Health and hygiene--New Mexico--Santa Fe County.
- Mexican American women.
- Mexican Americans--Medical care--New Mexico--Santa Fe County.
- Mexican Americans.
- Health attitudes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-225-9
- OCLC:
- 568006530
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