Class, familism and utilization of health services in Durango, Mexico: A replication
| Autor: | Gustavo M. Quesada, Peter L. Heller, Maria del Carmen Rivera-Worley, H. Paul Chalfant |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Geography Planning and Development Population Ethnic group Conventional wisdom Medical care Health services Health care Humans Medicine Family education Mexico media_common Class (computer programming) education.field_of_study business.industry Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Health Services Social Class Socioeconomic Factors Working class Sociology Medical Female Demographic economics business Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. Part A: Medical Psychology & Medical Sociology. 15:539-541 |
| ISSN: | 0271-7123 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0271-7123(81)90076-6 |
| Popis: | This paper summarizes findings from a Durango, Mexico sample which lend support to some earlier findings by Hoppe and Heller [1]. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the literature, Hoppe and Heller, in a study of Mexican-Americans living in San Antonio, Texas, hypothesized, that familism was not a deterrent to the utilization of health service by members of this lower class, ethnic population. As in the United States, lower-class Durangans are found less likely than are their middle-class counterparts to have a stable source of medical care, and more likely to use a public as opposed to a private source of care. However, with the addition of familism as an intervening variable between class and source of health care, it is found that lower-class Mexicans with high degrees of familism are more likely to have a stable source of health care than are lower-class Mexicans possessing low commitment to familistic ties. In aggreement with Hoppe and Heller, we see familism as a positive structural force which facilitates the seeking of health care because the family and kin group acts as a buffer between Mexican-American lower-class and Anglo middle-class society. |
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