Health Care
About this book
Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert contributors bridges the communication gap between mainstream medical professionals who need to understand the Latino worldview and Latinos that need to adapt to the puzzling complexity of providers and insurers that make up the American health care system. Backed by research using quantitative methods and other techniques, Health Care 's seven chapters cover topics ranging from infant care to teenage dating and sexual mores to prescription medication use by older adults. Much of the coverage focuses on problems of access and the ways in which Latinos move between mainstream health care, and the world of traditional remedies provided by botƔnicas (shops specializing in herbs and other healing items) and curanderos (folk healers).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Why Do Hispanics in the United States Report Poor Health?
- Understanding Differences in Past Year Psychiatric Disorders for Latinos Living in the United States
- Does Americanization Have Adverse Effects on Health?: Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes among Puerto Ricans
- Nativity, Duration of Residence, Citizenship, and Access to Health Care for Hispanic Children
- BotĆ”nicas in Americaās Backyard: Uncovering the World of Latino Healersā Herb-healing Practices in New York City
- āSheās 16 Years-Old and Thereās Boys Calling Over to the Houseā: An Exploratory Study of Sexual Socialization in Latino Families
- Language Barriers Surrounding Medication Use among Older Latinos
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors