Mexican Americans and Health : ¡Sana! ¡Sana! /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Torre, Adela de la
Otros Autores: Estrada, Antonio L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Minorities > Medical care.
Minorities > Health and hygiene.
Mexican Americans > Medical care.
Mexican Americans > Health and hygiene.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
minorities.
Relations medecin-patient.
Minorites.
Services de sante > Accessibilite.
Americains d'origine mexicaine.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Soins medicaux.
Minorites > Sante et hygiene.
Minorites > Soins medicaux.
Substance-Related Disorders > ethnology
Socioeconomic Factors
Physician-Patient Relations
Minority Groups
Health Status
Health Services Accessibility
Mexican Americans
Health Behavior > ethnology
Physician and patient.
Minorities.
Health services accessibility.
Mexican Americans.
United States
Mexico
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of health care issues for people of Mexican origin
  • Introduction to the Mexican-origin population: Political-geographic concentration of the Mexican-origin population
  • Historical concentration of the Mexican-origin population
  • Language status
  • Educational level
  • Occupational location
  • Health status of Mexican Americans: Historical context of health and disease
  • Sociocultural basis of health and disease
  • Health promotion and disease prevention in the Mexican American community
  • Health status of Mexican American subgroups
  • Mexican American morbidity and mortality paradox
  • Understanding substance abuse and AIDS
  • Prevalence of drug use among Mexican American adolescents and adults
  • Causal factors in substance use
  • Co-occurrence of violence and substance use among Mexican American adolescents
  • Adverse health consequences of drug use
  • Prevention issues among Hispanic youth and adolescents
  • Health care access: What is health care access?
  • Who are the uninsured?
  • Financial access to care: A crisis for Mexican-origin patients
  • Risk factors that influence the health insurance coverage of the Mexican-origin population
  • Role of minority health care professionals in access to care
  • Cultural competency in health care services
  • Linguistic competency: a significant component of cultural competency
  • Impact of Mexican folklore, language, and health
  • Cultural competency: implications for the Mexican-origin population
  • Understanding the role of gender and cultural competency
  • Implementation of cultural competency: implications for the Mexican-origin population
  • Patient's guide for assessing the cultural competency of a health care provider
  • Beyond cultural competency: some final thoughts
  • Future trends in Mexican American health: Mexican American health policy in the twenty-first century.

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