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Peer reviewedCastro, Felipe G.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Interviews were conducted with 102 urban Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo American women to examine health-illness beliefs in five health domains as related to acculturation level: folk and hot-cold beliefs, beliefs of responsibility and control over own health, and cardiovascular disease and stress-illness beliefs. Mexican-origin women mildly…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis
