To reconcile these beliefs with the need for quality medical care, Mexican medical providers appropriate aspects of the US medical system to encourage patronage and alleviate the concerns of patients. This paper examines how some Mexican dentists, pharmacists and physicians in the Mexican border town ...
In 1970 there were 39,100 physicians, or one for every 1,300 inhabitants, 5,100 dentists, and about 50,000 medical assistants. Physicians are trained at four university medical faculties and 16 medical schools. In 1970, public health programs accounted for 5.7 percent of the total state ...
Given these facts, it is recommended that dental practitioners who target consumers of lower levels of acculturation create a service strategy that is different from dentists who target a largely Anglo or highly acculturated Mexican American market....
Hispanic populations have grown from very low numbers to concentrations of 5 to 30 percent."You see it in the number of Hispanic service corporations, law offices, dentists, businesses, counselors, teachers in high schools," says Rudy Acuna, a professor of Chicano studies at California State Col...