An ethnographic study of the social context of migrant health in the United States

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1776-1793

  Holmes, Seth M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CITIZENSHIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; GAZE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEXICO; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOMATIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; ADDICTION; AGRICULTURE; ARTHRALGIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH; INJURY; MANPOWER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARTHRALGIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33750895725     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030448     Document Type: Article

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