Listening to the quiet voices of hispanic migrant children about health

Abstract

Creating a team requires a clear strategy with objectives and boundaries. Teams succeed or fail depending on the enthusiasm and dedication of the members. Important points to consider in maintaining effectiveness include team philosophy, leadership, dynamics, communication, and workload. Members provide a unique contribution that must be valued and respected. Maintaining a productive and friendly team can become difficult. Issues such as uncertainty of the team's position in the overall service, caseload, poor coordination between team members, and uneven work distribution may cause disruption. To ensure a functioning and useful team, members must be constantly aware of their working relationships with each other and the impact they have on patients, families, and colleagues.

Globalization, migration health, and educational preparation for transnational medical encounters

“…A substantial proportion of all health care is provided "outside the perimeter of the formal health care system" [[ 150 ], p.251]. In the migrant-health arena, innovative approaches to managing demands for medical treatment and wellness promotion include complementary integrations of biomedical and ethnocultural explanatory frameworks and health-related practices [ 107 , 124 , 109 , 151 - 153 , 108 , 96 ] and incorporate multilevel linkages of individual, socio-political, and ecological considerations [ 154 , 155 ]. In the interest of preparing creative medical practitioners, TC education emphasizes flexibility and adaptability when confronted with unique and unfamiliar situations [ 37 ].…”

Hispanic Adolescent Farmworkers’ Perceptions Associated with Pesticide Exposure1

“…Focus groups have been successfully used as a research strategy with various cultural groups (Anderson, Goddard, Garcia, Guzman, & Vasquez, 1998;Bauer, Rodriquez, Quiroga, & Flores-Ortiz, 2000;Groff et al, 2000;Lalonde, Rabinowitz, Sherfsky, & Washienko, 1997;Williams, Abbott, & Taylor, 1997) including Latino farmworkers (Napolitano & Beltran, 1998;Napolitano et al, 2002;Perilla, Wilson, Wold, & Spencer, 1998;Wilson, Pittman, & Wold, 2000). A key advantage of this technique is that the opinions of several participants can be obtained in a single session.…”

Cultural competence in nursing: Foundation or fallacy?

“…The second category of actions recommended to achieve cultural competence (and the one we take issue with in this article) charges providers with becoming knowledgeable about the cultures of their constituent patients and learning about their lifestyles and culturally determined health beliefs and behaviors. 19,[21][22][23] These include cultural attitudes, communication styles, taboos, and all the health/illness beliefs and practices of the specific population groups served by the particular health care provider. According to Salimbene,19 the provider should acquire enough cultural information to anticipate possible barriers to access or hindrances to compliance with care.…”