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Hispanic Culture and Health Care: Fact, Fiction, Folklore

Author: Arguijo Martinez, Ricardo
Date Published: 1978


A collection of selected readings about Hispanic health care beliefs and practices. It is made up of 19 articles divided into four sections: cultural considerations; cultural factors and their influence on the health beliefs of Hispanics; folk diseases, health rituals and practices, and their influence on the biopsychosocial realms of the Hispanic; and the Hispanic's reaction to health-care delivery systems. Each section is preceded by a short introduction. The articles h represent some of the major contributions found in the literature concerning the health and culture of Hispanics in the U.S.

Price: loan
Number of Pages: 264