Health
Displaying 8 programs
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Health And Education Issues Facing Chicanos In California
Description:
Linda Fregoso discusses the current status of Chicano health and education with Faustina Solis, the former head of California’s migrant clinic program and Rosario C. de Baca, a member of the California Superintendents Advisory Committee
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Curanderismo, Mexican Folk Healing
Description:
Host Rosa Linda Fregoso explores the traditions of Curanderismo, or folk healing, within the Chicano community, and discusses its origins and scientific and spiritual basis with Dolores Estrella, a curandera, and with academics, Dr. Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano and Dr. Juan Chavira.
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Curanderismo
Description:
Dr. Juan Chavira discusses the practices, beliefs, and theories that constitute contemporary curanderismo. He emphasizes the body of knowledge in curanderismo that connects everyday life to the maintenance of health.
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Chicano Health Demographics
Description:
Romeo Rodriguez, assistant instructor of Chicano Studies at UT-Austin, discusses his demographic research on the mortality rate of Chicanos in comparison to Anglos and African Americans. Rodriguez seeks to understand how ethnicity and socioeconomic factors account for death rates and by extension the overall health of Chicanos.
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Chicano Folk Diseases And Their Herbal Cures
Description:
While she was living in Coahuila working with the Kikapu, Dolores Latorre, an anthropologist, became interested in the history and use of medicinal plants. Her book Cooking and Curing with Mexican Herbs is a study of Mexican folk beliefs, cures and cuisine using information provided by her employees, a laundress and a cook, and their friends.
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Curanderismo: The Traditional Medicine Of The Mexican American Community
Description:
Dr. Juan Chavira discusses the theory, practice and culture of curanderos and curanderismo.
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Mexican Americans And Mental Health
Description:
Raymundo Rodriguez discusses his work with the Presidential Commission on Mental health and reflects on the many issues shaping Mexican American relationships to the mental health care system in the United States.
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Human Services To The Spanish-Speaking Elderly
- Theme:
- Society
- Series:
- Health, Social Issues
- Host:
- Gloria Contreras
- Interviewee:
- Jesse A. Treviño
- Broadcast date:
- Oct 24, 1977
Description:
Jesse A. Trevino discusses emerging issues for the care of the elderly in North American society, with particular focus on the often-hidden situation of Mexican American elderly. He discusses the ways that Latino elderly, challenging the myth of the warm extended Mexican American family, too often live isolated, abandoned lives in poverty or access to health care.