Hispanic/Latino Healthcare

TITLE: THE LATINO PATIENT: A CULTURAL GUIDE FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

Author: Nilda Chong

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

ISBN-13: 978-1877864957

By 2030 Latinos will comprise roughly 20 percent of the population of the United States. Growing numbers of health professionals are realizing the importance of understanding Latino cultural values as they impact the clinical encounter. Such knowledge can enhance their ability to communicate with and treat Latino patients effectively and respectfully. 

The Latino Patient provides an in-depth exploration of Latino diversity, relevant cultural values, health status, beliefs, and practices, as well as effective communication strategies. The author has developed an original, practice-oriented model that leads the reader from greeting the patient to ultimately negotiating treatment.

TITLE: MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR NEW HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS

Editors: Manny J. González and Gladys González-Ramos

Publisher:  Routledge

ISBN-13: 978-0789023087

Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants: Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice presents insights and practical approaches from respected authorities and explores the latest trends on these new populations. You’ll find an in-depth examination of the mental health disparities in Hispanic immigrants, a conceptual overview of reasons for immigration and migration patterns, and a look at the unique stressors new groups face which impact immigrants’ mental health. Detailed data on each group, important highlights of pertinent historical aspects, and in-depth discussions of helpful assessment, treatment, and practice issues provide effective approaches illustrated through discussion and case studies.

TITLE: BUILDING CONFIANZA: EMPOWERING LATINOS/AS THROUGH TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION 

Author: Dalia Magaña

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0814258095

Dalia Magaña’s Building Confianza demonstrates that effective doctor-patient communication in Spanish requires that practitioners not only have knowledge of Spanish but also have transcultural knowledge of Latino/a values and language use. Using linguistic analysis to study real-time doctor-patient interactions, Magaña probes the role of interpersonal language and transcultural competency in improving patient-centered health care with Spanish-speaking Latino/as, highlighting successful examples of how Latino/a cultural constructs of confianza (trust), familismo (family orientation), personalismo (friendliness), respeto (respect), and simpatía (kindness) can be deployed in medical interactions.

TITLE: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS

Author: Rachel Spector, Rachael Spector

Publisher: Pearson

ISBN-13: 978-0134413310

This book examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system, consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An essential guide for any health-care professional, this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives and more importantly the balance of the person, both within one’s being (physical, mental, and spiritual)and in the outside world (natural, communal, and metaphysical). An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today, while introductory and capstone chapters help place material within perspective.

Medicine in Latin America from Vanderbilt University Press

TITLE: TRAUMATIC STATES

Author: Nia Parson

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

ISBN-13:  9780826518958

The end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never existed before. In Traumatic States, anthropologist Nia Parson explores the methods of care and recovery from such domestic violence. She interviews and contextualizes the lives of numerous individuals who have confronted these acts. Ultimately, Traumatic States argues that facing the challenges of healing both body and mind, and addressing fundamental inequalities, are part of the same battle.

TITLE: DELIVERING HEALTH

Author: Lydia Z. Dixon

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

ISBN-13: 9780826501134

Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. In Delivering Health, Lydia Z. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped by broader historical, political, and social factors in Mexico, through the perspectives of midwives who have long been marginalized as remnants of the country's precolonial past. Delivering Health ethnographically examines three schools with very different educational approaches and professional goals, and asks us to consider the possibility that marginalized actors like midwives may hold the solution to widespread concerns in health.

TITLE: TRANSFORMING THERAPY

Author: Whitney L. Duncan

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

ISBN-13: 9780826521989

Oaxaca is known for many things but not for mental health care.

How does one explain the recent growth of Euroamerican-style therapies in the region? Author Whitney L. Duncan analyzes this phenomenon of "psy-globalization" and develops a rich ethnography of its effects on Oaxacans' understandings of themselves and their emotions, ultimately showing how globalizing forms of care are transformative for and transformed by the local context. She also delves into the mental health impacts of migration from Mexico to the United States, both for migrants who return and for the family members they leave behind.

TITLE: CHANGING BIRTH IN THE ANDES

Authors: Lucia Guerra-Reyes

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

ISBN-13: 9780826522375

In 1997, when Lucia Guerra-Reyes began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Guerra-Reyes gives ethnographic attention to health care workers. She explains the class and educational backgrounds of traditional birth attendants and midwives, interviews doctors and health care administrators, and describes their interactions with local families. Peru's Intercultural Birthing Policy of 2005 was intended to solve longstanding issues by recognizing indigenous cultural values and making biomedical care more accessible and desirable for indigenous women. Yet many difficulties remain.