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Is Acculturation in
Hispanic Health
Research
a Flawed Concept?
by Carlos Ponce
University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
and
Brendon Comer
Michigan State University
Working
Paper No. 60
January 2003
Introduction:
Some health researchers use the concept of acculturation to try to
explain health behaviors or illnesses prevalent among Hispanic people.
In this research “Hispanic culture” has often been represented
as being associated with inadequate health beliefs and behaviors and
poor health. In much of this research, Hispanic culture is viewed as
hindering healthy practices. At the same time, other acculturation studies
find that Hispanic culture provides health-enhancing elements, such
as less permissive sexual behavior, better birth outcomes, or less smoking
and substance use. The effect of Hispanic culture on individual health
could prove to be an important social element to scrutinize. But we
believe that acculturation studies are seriously limited by several
basic conceptual and methodological problems that need to be addressed
before such knowledge can be achieved.
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