Acculturation and adherence: issues for health care providers working with clients of Mexican origin

J Transcult Nurs. 2004 Oct;15(4):331-7. doi: 10.1177/1043659604268950.

Abstract

Providing care to clients who come from different countries is a challenge for the American health care providers as they traverse the issues of cultural health beliefs and practices and language and knowledge deficits. It is just as difficult for the clients as they face new cultural customs, language barriers, and unfamiliar health care systems and medical management plans. Both parties face acculturation and adherence challenges. This article intends to address these issues as they pertain to clients of Mexican origin and to identify key points to be considered by providers when working with this population.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acculturation*
  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Choice Behavior
  • Communication Barriers
  • Conflict, Psychological
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Cultural Characteristics
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Humans
  • Medicine, Traditional
  • Mexican Americans / education
  • Mexican Americans / ethnology*
  • Mexico / ethnology
  • Models, Nursing
  • Models, Psychological
  • Negotiating
  • Nurse-Patient Relations*
  • Patient Compliance / ethnology*
  • Phytotherapy
  • Prejudice
  • Transcultural Nursing / education
  • Transcultural Nursing / organization & administration*
  • United States