Title | Handbook of Immigrant Health [electronic resource] / edited by Sana Loue |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1936-6 |
Descript | XIV, 654 p. online resource |
1. United States Immigration: A Historical Perspective -- 2. Defining the Immigrant -- 3. Acculturation -- 4. Medical Interpretation: An Essential Clinical Service for Non-English-Speaking Immigrants -- 5. Cross-Cultural Use of Measurements -- 6. Access to Health Care -- 7. Health Care Seeking Behavior -- 8. Healing Practices -- 9. The Role of the Family and the Community in the Clinical Setting -- 10. Folk Illnesses -- 11. Ethical Issues in Immigrant Health Care and Clinical Research -- 12. Refugee Health -- 13. Border Health -- 14. Migrant Health -- 15. Health and Disease among Hispanics -- 16. Asian Pacific Islander Health -- 17. African Health -- 18. Infectious Diseases -- 19. Cancer -- 20. Mental Illness and Immigration -- 21. Occupational Injuries: A Review of Incidence and Factors Associated with Occurrence while at Work -- 22. Reproductive Health -- 23. Aging -- 24. Substance Use among Immigrants to the United States -- 25. Intimate Partner Violence among Immigrants -- 26. Violence and Injury among Immigrants: An Epidemiological Review -- 27. Strategies for Health Education: Theoretical Models -- 28. Strategies for Health Education: Community-Based Methods -- 29. Immigrant Health Care Providers in the United States -- 30. Public Health Planning and Policy Change