title: Children with HIV/AIDS and their families: a successful social work intervention based on the culturally specific health care model.
abstract: Health care utilization and community support are of utmost importance in minimizing the sociomedical problems of people with HIV/AIDS. This article describes a health clinic in Belle Glade, Florida, that effectively uses the Culturally Specific Health Care Model defined by the author in a previous article. The current article explains the process used to assess the immediate needs of children with HIV/AIDS and their families. It also explores some of the personal and social determinants that prevented the families from pursuing medical treatment at a community migrant health center after pediatricians had diagnosed the children as having HIV/AIDS.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Maryland, MD 21205-1777, USA. agoicoec@ssw02.ab.umd.edu
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authors.lastname: Goicoechea-Balbona
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011203:Poverty; D012947:Social Work; D014171:Transients and Migrants