Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions
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ISBN: 0787942944 / Publisher: Jossey-Bass, January 1999
Contributors to 20 papers expand the cross-cultural understanding of and attempts to overcome the multiple healthcare barriers faced by immigrant women in four areas: background demographics, definitions, system and data limitations; health problems and concerns (reproductive, nutritional, infectious and chronic diseases); emotional, psychosomatic, behavioral, and mental health problems; and model program development and professional training for meeting immigrant health needs. Screening protocols and data tables augment the analysis related to risk factors, medical tests, mortality rates, and domestic violence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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This is a significant and timely book. The chapters are rich indescribing clinical considerations and approaches to the immigrantpatient in a broad range of disease areas. I recommAnd this book toall administrators and clinicians who serve or plan to serve thegrowing immigrant populations in the United States. --Henry Chung, medical director, Chinatown Health Clinic, New York,New York Immigrant Women's Health offers doctors, nurses, and administratorsthe knowledge and tools they need to meet the challenge to providequality care for one of the United States' most vulnerable patientpopulations?immigrant women. Providing readers insights into the knowledge, attitudes, healthbeliefs, health care practices, and health care seeking behavior ofimmigrant women, the contributors offer effective strategies forproviding culturally-competent, high-quality, cost-effective careto migrant women. Health care planners, policy makers, andadministrators who seek a clear understanding of the issuessurrounding health services utilization by immigrants and thedevastating effects of recent changes to federal policies will findthis book a vital and practical reference.
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