Immigrant Women's Health : Problems and Solutions. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Immigrant Women's Health : Problems and Solutions

This is a significant and timely book. The chapters are rich in describing clinical considerations and approaches to the immigrant patient in a broad range of disease areas. I recommAnd this book to all administrators and clinicians who serve or plan to serve the growing immigrant populations in the United States.
--Henry Chung, medical director, Chinatown Health Clinic, New York, New York

Immigrant Women's Health offers doctors, nurses, and administrators the knowledge and tools they need to meet the challenge to provide quality care for one of the United States' most vulnerable patient populations?immigrant women.

Providing readers insights into the knowledge, attitudes, health beliefs, health care practices, and health care seeking behavior of immigrant women, the contributors offer effective strategies for providing culturally-competent, high-quality, cost-effective care to migrant women. Health care planners, policy makers, and administrators who seek a clear understanding of the issues surrounding health services utilization by immigrants and the devastating effects of recent changes to federal policies will find this book a vital and practical reference.

ELIZABETH J. KRAMER, a clinical epidemiologist and medical writer, is a research scientist in the Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine at New York University School of Medicine where she specializes in immigrant health and women's health. SUSAN L. IVEY is a family and emergency physician and a health policy research specialist in the Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. YU-WEN YING is a professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley. Her major interests are Asian American mental health, immigrant and refugee adaptation, acculturation, and ethnic identity formation.