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"No me ponĂan mucha importancia": care-seeking experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrant women with chronic illness.
- Source :
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ANS. Advances in nursing science [ANS Adv Nurs Sci] 2012 Apr-Jun; Vol. 35 (2), pp. E24-36. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This interpretive phenomenological study explored the health care-seeking experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrant women. Interviews and observations were conducted with 26 uninsured Mexican immigrant women with a chronic illness residing in California. Participant narratives revealed that their health care seeking experiences were often characterized by a lack of recognition of their human plight and devaluation of their personhood. Both structural and social barriers to care exist for immigrant women. Modifying current policies to allow undocumented immigrants more options to access care could help reduce stigma, reduce suffering, and encourage clinicians to recognize their humanity and their legitimate medical needs.
- Subjects :
- California epidemiology
Discrimination, Psychological
Documentation
Emigrants and Immigrants psychology
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Services Accessibility organization & administration
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Mexico ethnology
Middle Aged
Personhood
Chronic Disease ethnology
Chronic Disease nursing
Medically Uninsured psychology
Mexican Americans psychology
Nurse-Patient Relations
Patient Acceptance of Health Care ethnology
Social Stigma
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1550-5014
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- ANS. Advances in nursing science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22565795
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0b013e31825373fe