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Health Policy And The Hispanic book cover

1st Edition

Health Policy And The Hispanic

Edited By Antonio Furino Copyright 1992
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care. It addresses the conceptual, institutional, and policy elements of Hispanic health problems and their solutions.

Part One: Issues and Value Questions 1. The Issues: An Overview 2. Cooperative Action for Minority Health Policy 3. Access to Health Care for Hispanics 4. Latino Health Indicators and the Underclass Model: From Paradox to New Policy Models 5. Education, Productivity, and the Nation's Future Part Two: Health Risks for Hispanics 6. Type II Diabetes in Mexican Americans: A Public Health Challenge 7. Major Infectious Diseases Causing Excess Morbidity in the Hispanic Population 8. The Health Status of U.S. Hispanic Children 9. Health Policy and the Elderly Hispanic 10. Traumatic Injury in Hispanic Americans: A Distinct Entity 11. Oral Health of Hispanics: Epidemiology and Risk Factors Part Three: Economic and Social Considerations 12. Formulating Health Policy in a Multicultural Society 13. Health Insurance Coverage and Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Americans 14. The Economic Costs of an Unhealthy Latino Population 15. Health Care on the U.S.-Mexico Border Part Four: Epilogue 16. Searching for Solutions

Biography

Antonio Furino, Author. Philip M. Allen is Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Foreign Languages, and Coordinator of Liberal Studies at Frostburg State University, in the University of Maryland System. He is a former Foreign Service Officer in Madagascar and Germany. He is author of several books on the Indian Ocean, and has held three Senior Fulbright Lectureships, including one at the University of Antananarivo in 1999-2000.

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