Title Immigration, acculturation, and health : the Mexican diaspora / Jill S. Reichman.

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New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 291 pages).
Series	The new Americans.
	New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Mexican American women -- Health and hygiene -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County.
	Mexican Americans -- Medical care -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe County.
	Health attitudes.
	Attitude to Health -- ethnology.
	Mexican Americans -- psychology.
	Acculturation.
	Mexico.
	New Mexico.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
	Health attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00952808
	Mexican American women -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst01019041
	Mexican Americans -- Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01019126
	New Mexico -- Santa Fe County. (OCoLC)fst01216898
Other Form:	Print version: Reichman, Jill S. Immigration, acculturation, and health. New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006 (DLC) 2006009807
ISBN	9781593322250 (electronic bk.)
	1593322259 (electronic bk.)

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