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Rethinking ethnicity and health care : a sociocultural perspective

Title
Rethinking ethnicity and health care : a sociocultural perspective / [edited] by Grace Xueqin Ma and George Henderson.
Publication
Springfield, Ill. : C.C. Thomas, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Ma, Grace Xueqin, 1962-
  • Henderson, George, 1932-
Description
xxii, 324 pages; 26 cm
Subject
  • Ethnic groups > Social aspects
  • Minorities > Social aspects
  • Groupes ethniques > Aspect social
  • Minorités > Aspect social
  • Ethnicity
  • Public Health
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Health Behavior > ethnology
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Pt. 1, Sociocultural dimensions of health care : Ethnicity and health care / Grace Zuequin Ma and George Henderson ; Race in the health of America / David Williams, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, and Rueben Warren ; U.S. minority populations health insurance and access to health care / Beatrice Thompson and Grace Zuequin Ma ; Cultural competency and the responsiveness of health services to ethnic minorities of color / Rowena Fong and Noreen Mikuau -- Pt. 2, Health care service issues : Ethnic minorities, health care systems, and behavior / Nolan Penn, Joyce Kramer, John Skinner, Snehendu Kar, Rugh Zambrana, and Joyce Williams ; Access to health care by Asian Americans / Grace Zueqin Ma ; Communication between Spanish-speaking patients and their doctors in medical encounters / Sharry Erzinger ; Contemporary health care issues of Native Americans and Alaska natives / Deborah Jones-Saumty ; Health care for African Americans : availability, accessibility, and usability / Nikki Franke and Janet Ohene-Frempong -- Pt. 3, Complementary, alternative or integrated medicine : The importance of integrated traditional and Western medicine / Grace Zueqin Ma and George Henderson ; The impact of Chinese medicine on America / Frederick Kao ; Healing and prophecy in the Black spiritial churches / Claude Jacobs ; Folk medicine among Mexican-American families / Elvia Krajewski-Jaime ; Native American belief system : medicine or mysticism / Carol Locust ; The peyote way : implications for culture care theory / Kathleen Huttlinger and Dennis Tanner -- Pt. 4, Future challenges : Methodological and research issues / Grace Xuequin Ma and George Henderson.
ISBN
  • 0398069565 (cloth)
  • 0398069573 (paper)
LCCN
99025016
OCLC
  • ocm41026571
  • SCSB-5100387
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Columbia University Libraries