Folk-healing among Mexican-American families as a consideration in the delivery of child welfare and child health care services.
If practitioners in cross-cultural services do not understand traditional health beliefs and practices and find ways to incorporate a compatible approach to them in their work, their clients and patients will go their own ways, sometimes with dire results. Practices among Mexican-American families are described.
Krajewski-Jaime
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Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D002662:Child Health Services; D002669:Child Welfare; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States