Immigration, acculturation, and health : the Mexican diaspora / / Jill S. Reichman.
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| Superior document: | The new Americans |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Physical Description: | xii, 291 p. |
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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.