Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Porto Rico Health Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Contextualizing Health and Aging in the Americas
Author: William A. Vega
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030005844
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas. It uses a comparative research framework to further understanding of current issues in health and aging in the transnational context of the health and migratory experiences of the U.S.- Mexican population. It provides an important contribution to the interdisciplinary investigation of chronic diseases and functional impairments, social care and medical services, care-giving and intervention development, and neighborhood factors supporting optimal aging, using new conceptual and methodological approaches (inter-group comparisons). Specifically, the chapters employ different methodologies that investigate trends in aging health and services related to immigration processes, family and household structure, macroeconomic changes in the quality of community life, and focus on the new realities of aging in Latino families in local communities. The book focuses on measurement, data-quality issues, new conceptual modeling techniques, and longitudinal survey capabilities, and suggests needed areas of new research. As such it is of interest to researchers and policy makers in a wide range of disciplines from social and behavioral sciences to economics, gerontology, geriatrics, and public health.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030005844
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas. It uses a comparative research framework to further understanding of current issues in health and aging in the transnational context of the health and migratory experiences of the U.S.- Mexican population. It provides an important contribution to the interdisciplinary investigation of chronic diseases and functional impairments, social care and medical services, care-giving and intervention development, and neighborhood factors supporting optimal aging, using new conceptual and methodological approaches (inter-group comparisons). Specifically, the chapters employ different methodologies that investigate trends in aging health and services related to immigration processes, family and household structure, macroeconomic changes in the quality of community life, and focus on the new realities of aging in Latino families in local communities. The book focuses on measurement, data-quality issues, new conceptual modeling techniques, and longitudinal survey capabilities, and suggests needed areas of new research. As such it is of interest to researchers and policy makers in a wide range of disciplines from social and behavioral sciences to economics, gerontology, geriatrics, and public health.
Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical parasitology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical parasitology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Puerto Rican Syndrome
Author: Patricia Gherovici
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781892746757
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet, as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records as "a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor stress," and was designated "Puerto Rican Syndrome." In this lucid and sophisticated new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US and, therefore, for the US as a whole. As a mental illness that is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links nationality and culture to a psychiatric disease whose reappearance recalls the spectacular hysteria that led to the discovery of the unconscious and the birth of psychoanalysis. Gherovici beautifully and systematically uses the combined insights of Freud and Lacan to examine the current state of psychoanalysis and the Hispanic community in America. Blending these insights with history, current events, and her own case material, Gherovici provides a startling, fresh look at Puerto Rican Syndrome as social and cultural phenomenon. She sheds new light on the future of American society and argues that psychoanalysis is not only possible, but much needed in the ghetto.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781892746757
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet, as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records as "a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor stress," and was designated "Puerto Rican Syndrome." In this lucid and sophisticated new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US and, therefore, for the US as a whole. As a mental illness that is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links nationality and culture to a psychiatric disease whose reappearance recalls the spectacular hysteria that led to the discovery of the unconscious and the birth of psychoanalysis. Gherovici beautifully and systematically uses the combined insights of Freud and Lacan to examine the current state of psychoanalysis and the Hispanic community in America. Blending these insights with history, current events, and her own case material, Gherovici provides a startling, fresh look at Puerto Rican Syndrome as social and cultural phenomenon. She sheds new light on the future of American society and argues that psychoanalysis is not only possible, but much needed in the ghetto.
Public Health Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbreviations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbreviations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Health Care Financing Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Quality of care under Medicare's prospective payment system
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Quality of Care Under Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Appendix
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description