Professor Publishes on Immigrant Health
 Edilma Yearwood, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing at NHS,
has published two
recent articles on the health of immigrant families.
The first, from the Journal of Pediatric Health Care,
is titled, "Child Health
Care Decision Making and Experiences of Caribbean Women."
The
article concludes:
- Health care providers should assess immigrant parents for
their use of
collateral resources such as informal social supports, word-of-mouth
recommendations, and culturally sanctioned products when caring
for their
ill children.
- Frequent changes in health care providers, stigma, cultural
insensitivity,
and devaluation all contribute to cultural barriers in the relationship
between immigrant families and health care providers.
- Immigrant parents may benefit from learning assertive communication
skills
to help them navigate the U.S. health care system.
In addition, Yearwood co-authored an article in the Archives
of Psychiatric
Nursing. That publication found:
- The migration experience
of immigrant youth is complex with pre-, inter-,
and post-migration factors contributing to stressors and affecting
behavioral symptoms experienced.
- Delay in accessing mental health services can be attributed
to stigma,
cultural shame, immigration status, and long wait times for health
care
appointments.
- Poor epidemiological data exists in Latin American and Caribbean
countries
of origin about the prevalence of mood disorders in their youth.
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