Childhood asthma, air quality, and social suffering among Mexican Americans in California's san Joaquin Valley: "Nobody talks to us here"

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 336-367

  Schwartz, Norah Anita ^a   Pepper, David ^b  

^a El Colegio de la Frontera Norte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Asthma; Ethnography; Explanatory models; Mexican American

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ASTHMA; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 77951693868     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740903303944     Document Type: Article

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