Medical Returns as Class Transformation: Situating Migrants' Medical Returns within a Framework of Transnationalism

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 417-432

  Horton, Sarah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

health care seeking; medical travel; migrants; transnationalism; US Latinos

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883475324     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2012.749875     Document Type: Article

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