Middle-Class Retirees at the Frontier of Health Care: An Example from the Frontera de Salud Project in West Texas
Date
2024-03
Authors
Kotarba, Joseph
Perez, Norma
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The purpose of this study is to explore ethnographically the health concerns and health care availability among largely middle-class retirees in the far west Texas frontier.
The Frontera de Salud project at UTMB has focused on assessing and ameliorating health care concerns among working-class and indigenous residents in the Big Bend area, but students and faculty have also begun mapping the shifting demographic and socio-cultural contours of health and health care in the entire population.
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retirees, healthcare
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Kotarba, J. A., & Perez, N. A. (2024). Middle-class retirees at the frontier of health care: An examle from the Frontera de Salud project in West Texas. Poster presented at the Health Scholar Showcase, Translational Health Research Center, San Marcos, Texas.