Samoa Digital Library

Psychocultural Influences on Health Care Acceptability Among Elderly U.S. Pacific Islanders

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author J. Stoil, Michael
dc.contributor.author Murthy, Susmita
dc.contributor.author H. Kuramoto, Ford
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-01T21:40:04Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-01T21:40:04Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.identifier.citation doi:10.1300/J045v22n01_05 en_US
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/976
dc.description 18 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract There is widespread recognition of the influence of ethnic variation on immigrant response to health care services but far less is known about source of variation among nonimmigrant ethnic enclaves. Pacific Islander populations under U.S. administration for more than a century illustrate the potential influences of cultural factors on health care. Focus groups among elderly Samoan, Native Hawaiian, and Chamorro residents of southern California in 2002 found ethnic variation in such characteristics as expectations of publicly financed health care and in the willingness to discuss alternative sources of help with clinicians. These variations appear influenced by the colonial health care experience of these U.S. territories and, in the case of Samoan women, in distinctive perceptions of the role of prayer and traditional healing methods in care. Such psych cultural factors appear more potent than English language proficiency as an influence on the acceptability of health care among Pacific Islander elders en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher JOURNAL OF HEALTH & SOCIAL POLICY en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 22;
dc.subject Pacific Islander, Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, health care, elderly, ethnicity en_US
dc.title Psychocultural Influences on Health Care Acceptability Among Elderly U.S. Pacific Islanders en_US
dc.type Article en_US


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Browse

My Account