Handbook of immigrant health /
Here is the first comprehensive cross-disciplinary work to examine the current health situation of our immigrants, successfully integrating the vast literature of diverse fields -- epidemiology, health services research, anthropology, law, medicine, social work, health promotion, and bioethics -- to...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- United States immigration: a historical perspective
- Defining the immigrant
- Acculturation
- Medical interpretation: an essential clinical service for non-English-speaking immigrants
- Cross-cultural use of measurements
- Access to health care
- Health care seeking behavior
- Healing practices
- The role of the family and the community in the clinical setting
- Folk illnesses
- Ethical issues in immigrant health care and clinical research
- Refugee health
- Border health
- Migrant health
- Health and disease among Hispanics
- Asian Pacific islander health
- African health
- Infectious diseases
- Cancer
- Mental illness and immigration
- Occupational injuries: a review of incidence and factors associated with occurrence while at work
- Reproductive health
- Aging
- Substance use among immigrants to the United States
- Intimate partner violence among immigrants
- Violence and injury among immigrants: an epidemiological review
- Strategies for health education: theoretical models
- Strategies for health education: community-based methods
- Immigrant health care providers in the United States
- Public health planning and policy change.