Ethnomedical (Folk) Remedies for Childhood Asthma in a Mainland Puerto Rican Community

Pachter, Lee M.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1995.02170220048007

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“…Some of the therapies that we define as CAM under our traditional allopathic model of medicine are actually standard medical practices in other countries where this model does not predominate. For example, Jarabe 7 syrup is a combination of plant extracts frequently available in botanicas and used by Hispanic families to treat asthma (Patcher, Cloutier, & Bernstein, 1995). Because this is a regularly used treatment among this population, Hispanic parents in the United States may not even think to discuss this treatment with their child's HCP.…”

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Parental Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Over-the-Counter Medication Use in Children's Asthma Management

Sidora-Arcoleo¹,

Yoos²,

Kitzman³

et al. 2008

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Parental Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Over-the-Counter Medication Use in Children's Asthma Management

Sidora-Arcoleo¹,

Yoos²,

Kitzman³

et al. 2008

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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“…Ries and colleagues [54] found that Vietnamese families may use traditional practices including coining, cupping, pinching, oil or steam inhalation, bleeding, herbal ingestion and acupuncture to treat asthma at home. Similarly, Puerto Rican families use an array of interventions to care for their children's asthma, including breathing exercises and rubbing the child's chest with herbal remedies [55], and African American mothers in another ethnographic study relied on steam inhalation, herbal teas, and homemade syrups. Prayer was used by both Hispanic and African American mothers [56].…”

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The Role of Culture in Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Screening and Management

Shaw

Huebner

Armin

et al. 2008

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…The continued existence of folk and alternative medicine among members of the African American community may also suggest a lack of confidence in conventional treatments [70]. Many Hispanic communities, including Puerto Ricans, also seek alternative medicine routes for care [71,72]. Further, doubts about the health care system's ability to equitably care for African Americans and Hispanic Americans may affect their perceptions about the efficacy of treatments and procedures offered to them, although this hypothesis needs to be tested.…”

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The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

Katz

Kegeles

Green

et al. 2003

Dental Clinics of North America

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SummaryThis article is intended to provide a relatively complete picture of how a pilot study-conceived and initiated within an NIDCR-funded RRCMOH-matured into a solid line of investigation within that center and "with legs"into a fully funded study within the next generation of NIDCR centers on this topic of health disparities, the Centers for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities. It highlights the natural opportunity that these centers provide for multicenter, cross-disciplinary research and for research career pipelining for college and dental school students; with a focus, in this case, on minority students.Furthermore, this series of events demonstrates the rich potential that these types of research centers have to contribute in ways that far exceed the scientific outcomes that form their core. In this instance, the NMOHRC played a central-and critical, if unanticipated-role in contributing to two events of national significance, namely the presidential apology to the African American community for the research abuses of the USPHS-Tuskegee syphilis study and the establishment of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. Origins of the Tuskegee Legacy ProjectThe Tuskegee Legacy Project (TLP) has its origins in casual Web surfing by a biomedical reference librarian on her laptop computer on a fall evening in 1993 while relaxing in the dormer room, which served as the family den. Ms. B.J. Frey, Head Reference Librarian at the * Corresponding author. E-mail address: ralph.katz@nyu.edu (R.V. Katz).This research project was supported by NIDCR/NIH grant #P50 DE10592 (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/ University of Connecticut Northeastern Minority Oral Health Research Center), and is currently supported in the analysis phase by NIDCR/NIH grant #U54 DE 14257 (NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center).Research Centers supported by the NIH are fully intended to create a vortex of scientific activity that goes well beyond the direct scientific aims of the studies initially funded within those centers. The maxim is that the whole should be greater than the sum of its initial constituent studies or parts. We believe that NMOHRC did indeed achieve that maxim-even extending "the whole" to include broad societal impact, well beyond the scope of important, but mere, scientific outcomes-all within the concept and appropriate functions of a scientific NIHfunded research center. NIH Public Access

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Ethnomedical (Folk) Remedies for Childhood Asthma in a Mainland Puerto Rican Community

Cited by 88 publications

References 26 publications

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Parental Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Over-the-Counter Medication Use in Children's Asthma Management

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Parental Nondisclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Over-the-Counter Medication Use in Children's Asthma Management

The Role of Culture in Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Screening and Management

The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits

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