Intraethnic Diversity: Health Care of the Chinese-Americans

Hessler, Richard M.; Nolan, Michael; Ogbru, Benjamin; New, Peter

doi:10.17730/humo.34.3.l1x2x35634711638

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“…Therapeutic interventions involve bringing these forces into balance, and foods or herbs with strong yin and yang qualities may be prescribed (Char et al, 1980). More recently, investigators and practitioners have found Chinese Americans to use Western and Chinese medical services together (Braun & Browne, 1998;Char et al, 1980;Hessler, Nolan, Ogbu, & New, 1975).…”

Section: Chinese Cultural Traditions and Values That Affect Caregivinmentioning

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Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving, and Help Seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Braun

Browne²

1998

Health & Social Work

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The United States is becoming more ethnically diverse, and Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs) are one of the most rapidly growing ethnic minority groups. Of interest to social workers is how the traditional values and practices of these cultures affect their perceptions of disease and use of health services. This article presents information on perceptions of dementia, caregiving, and help seeking for the API group as a whole, with additional information on five of the major API subgroups--Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Hawaiian. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.

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Section: Chinese Cultural Traditions and Values That Affect Caregivinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving, and Help Seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Braun

Browne²

1998

Health & Social Work

150

135

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“…Maclean, 1971) and of many ethnic minorities in North American cities (e.g. Hessler et al, 1975;Fuchs and Bashshur, ] 975) demonstrate that traditional medicine can persist even where barriers to obtaining Western-type health care are minimal.…”

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Traditional healers in rural Hausaland

Stock

1981

GeoJournal

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Hausa communities in Nigeria are served by several distinct types of traditional healers. Practitioners who utilize various secular or technical approaches in healing may be distinguished from those who claim the ability to mobilize some spiritual or supernatural force for healing purposes. Hausa healers may be either sedentary or mobile, the latter following a regular circuit within a periodic market system, or moving randomly from village to village.The paper provides a description of the practice of medicine by the major categories of Hausa healers. Alternate sources of medicine, both traditional and Western, are listed. In conclusion, the future role of traditional healers in Hausland is briefly discussed.

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“…We must not assume, however, that all members of an ethnic or other socioeconomically variant group exhibit similar patterns of folk health use. Age, length of time in the city, marital status, and strength of local family ties may affect such patterns (see Hessler et al 1975). The more upwardly mobile and higher income members of ethnic or migrant groups may use folk health mechanisms less often or for differing reasons-as for backup to modern medicine or for purely nonsomatic functions (Press 1969:215).…”

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Urban Folk Medicine: A Functional Overview

Press¹

1978

American Anthropologist

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Social and economic functions of folk illness and folk medicine are fairly well known for rural contexts but still lack codification for urban milieus. In this exploratory paper, folk health practices are examined in terms of their response to urban socioeconomic characteristics. Such practices appear to serve functions of acculturation, guilt displacement resulting from failure to achieve, and subgroup identity maintenance, among others. Folk practices are resilient, readily shifting to adjunct functions of healing under pressure from effective modern medical and welfare systems. [medical anthropology, urban anthropology, curanderismo, ethnology, health]

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Intraethnic Diversity: Health Care of the Chinese-Americans

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving, and Help Seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving, and Help Seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Traditional healers in rural Hausaland

Urban Folk Medicine: A Functional Overview

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