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April 2003, Vol 93, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 524-525
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

USE OF NONALLOPATHIC HEALING METHODS BY LATINA WOMEN AT MIDLIFE

M. Barton Laws, PhD and Nicolás Carballeira, ND, MPH

Both authors are with the Latin American Health Institute, Boston, Mass, and the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should sent to M. Barton Laws, PhD, Latin American Health Institute, 95 Berkeley St, Boston, MA 02116 (e-mail: bart@lhil.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Bair et al. found that use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by Latina women around menopausal age in Newark, NJ, is less common than use by women of other ethnicities in certain other cities.1 The study operationalized CAM use in ways that do not correspond to the methods or labels typically used in Caribbean and South American societies.2–5 For example, "folk medicine," an anthropological term,6 would not be recognized by most users.7

In 1995–96, we developed a series of items in Spanish and English on the use of nonallopathic healing,8 based on discussions with key informants, review of the . . . [Full Text]




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