Abstract
The Island of Puerto Rico has a population of over 3.5 million. Approximately three million Puerto Ricans live in the mainland US; more than half live in the northeastern US. They self-identify as Puertorri-queños or Boricua (the Taíno Indian word for Puerto Rican) or Niuyoricans for those born in New York. Diversity among Puerto Ricans includes assimilation, individuality, and the variant characteristics of culture as presented in Chap. 1.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Bibliography
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015) Hispanic Health. Accessed from https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/hispanic-health/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011) Maternity practices in infant nutrition and care in Puerto Rico. Accessed from https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/mpinc/states/mpinc2011puertorico.pdf
CIA (2016) World factbook: Puerto Rico. Accessed from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rq.html
Diaz L (2012) A structuralist analysis of Puerto Rican Santería. Accessed from http://future-nonstop.org/c/b684d4ce0746140c5c08714153843d32
Munet-Vilaro F (1998) Grieving and death rituals of Latinos. Oncol Nurs Forum 25(10):1761–1763
Patcher L (1995) Puerto Rican health beliefs and practices: exploring the boundaries between ethnomedicine and biomedicine. Accessed from https://practicalbioethics.org/files/members/documents/Pachter_11_2.pdf
Purnell L (2013) People of Puerto Rican heritage. In: Purnell L (ed) Transcultural health care: a culturally competent approach, 4th edn. F.A. Davis, Philadelphia
Puerto Rico (2016) Countries and their culture. Accessed from http://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Puerto-Rico.html
Puerto Rico: family culture (n.d.-a) Accessed from http://knowpuertorico.weebly.com/family-culture.html
Puerto Rico: non-verbal communication (n.d.-b) Accessed from http://knowpuertorico.weebly.com/-non-verbal-communication.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). People of Puerto Rican Heritage. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_26
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-21945-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-21946-8
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)