Mexican Americans & health : sana! sana! /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Torre, Adela de la
Other Authors: Estrada, Antonio L.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2001.
Series:Mexican American studies series.
Mexican American experience.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Health and hygiene.
Mexican Americans > Medical care.
Minorities > Health and hygiene.
Minorities > Medical care.
Mexican Americans.
Health services accessibility.
Minorities.
Physician and patient.
Health Behavior > ethnology
Mexican Americans
Health Services Accessibility
Health Status
Minority Groups
Physician-Patient Relations
Socioeconomic Factors
Substance-Related Disorders > ethnology
Minorités > Soins médicaux.
Minorités > Santé et hygiène.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Soins médicaux.
Américains d'origine mexicaine.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Minorités.
Relations médecin-patient.
minorities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Mexican Americans > Health and hygiene
Mexican Americans > Medical care
Minorities > Health and hygiene
Minorities > Medical care
Mexico
United States
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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