Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0787942944 ISBN 13 : 9780787942946

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ELIZABETH J. KRAMER, a clinical epidemiologist and medical writer, is a research scientist in the Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine at New York University School of Medicine where she specializes in immigrant health and women's health. SUSAN L. IVEY is a family and emergency physician and a health policy research specialist in the Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. YU-WEN YING is a professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley. Her major interests are Asian American mental health, immigrant and refugee adaptation, acculturation, and ethnic identity formation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0787942944
• ISBN 13: 9780787942946
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Éditeur: Kramer Elizabeth J., Ivey Susan L., Ying Yu-Wen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible