Overview
- Addressing the demographic trends affecting Latinos in the United States, Mexico and Latin America – particularly the aging of the Hispanic population and its resultant health and long-term needs
- Focussing on the growing Hispanic population in the United States, this book indirectly addresses social issues such as culture, poverty, immigration, education, employment, and civil rights
- An examination of the effect of migration on the health of the elderly – contrasting those who migrated and those who did not
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Table of contents(20 chapters)
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Setting the Stage: Hispanic Health and Aging in the Americas
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Exploring the Health Consequences of Hispanic Mortality
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Contextualizing Support and Mexican-Origin Health in Old Age: Issues of Family, Migration, and Income
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Access to Health Care Services Among Elderly Hispanics with Special Reference to Mexican Americans
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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LBJ School of Public Affairs and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Jacqueline L. Angel
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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA
Keith E. Whitfield
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Health of Aging Hispanics
Book Subtitle: The Mexican-Origin Population
Editors: Jacqueline L. Angel, Keith E. Whitfield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47208-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-47206-5
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2367-7
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-47208-9
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 290
Topics: Aging, Sociology, general, Public Health, Demography