Immigration, acculturation, and health (Record no. 138615)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02138nam a22003734a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 362.1089/6872078956 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Reichman, Jill S. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Immigration, acculturation, and health |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | LFB Scholarly Pub., |
| Year of publication | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 291 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The new Americans |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mexican American women |
| Topical Term | Mexican Americans |
| Topical Term | Health attitudes. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10172632 |
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