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Mexican Community Health and the Politics of Health Reform
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Description for Mexican Community Health and the Politics of Health Reform
Paperback. Deals with the struggle of Mexicans to secure quality health care. Taking a political economic approach, this study examines the conditions under which community-based health groups are emerging and explores the ways different constituencies address health dilemmas. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
The struggle of Mexicans to secure quality health care is the focal point of this study. Large-scale transformations in Mexico's national health care system have resulted in budget cuts, increased user fees and decreased public services. At the local level community-based health groups that practice popular medicine are addressing the challenge by training health promoters in a variety of preventive and healing practices and offering low-cost services in community clinics. Their health care approach integrates local and global practices ranging from Mexican herbalism to Chinese medicine. Suzanne Schneider's ethnographic study of grassroots health groups in Morelos, Mexico, addresses the lives ... Read more
The struggle of Mexicans to secure quality health care is the focal point of this study. Large-scale transformations in Mexico's national health care system have resulted in budget cuts, increased user fees and decreased public services. At the local level community-based health groups that practice popular medicine are addressing the challenge by training health promoters in a variety of preventive and healing practices and offering low-cost services in community clinics. Their health care approach integrates local and global practices ranging from Mexican herbalism to Chinese medicine. Suzanne Schneider's ethnographic study of grassroots health groups in Morelos, Mexico, addresses the lives ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826348869
SKU
V9780826348869
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99-3
About
Suzanne D. Schneider is project leader for Durham Health Innovations at the Duke Center for Community Research. She resides in Durham, North Carolina.
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