Description |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
The new Americans.
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New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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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. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Mexican American women -- Health and hygiene -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County.
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Mexican American women -- Health and hygiene. |
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New Mexico -- Santa Fe County. |
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Mexican American women. |
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Mexican Americans -- Medical care -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County.
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Mexican Americans -- Medical care. |
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Mexican Americans. |
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Health attitudes.
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Health attitudes. |
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Attitude to Health -- ethnology. |
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Mexican Americans -- psychology. |
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Acculturation. |
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Mexico. |
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New Mexico. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Reichman, Jill S. Immigration, acculturation, and health. New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006 (DLC) 2006009807 |
ISBN |
9781593322250 (electronic book) |
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1593322259 (electronic book) |
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1593321325 (alkaline paper) |
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9781593321321 |
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