Hernández María, Gálvez Alyshia, Verdaguer Sandra, Martínez Samuel, Abadía-Barrero César Ernesto, Flórez Karen R
El Instituto, Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin America Studies of College of Liberal Arts and Science, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College, CUNY New York, New York, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2025;44(4):314-330. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2507973. Epub 2025 May 26.
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed (home remedies) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants attributed use of remedios caseros to factors such as overpacked hospitals and limited information from authoritative sources about preventing and alleviating COVID-19. Findings suggest that home remedies were a survival strategy born out of necessity, or imperative resilience.: Mexican immigrants devised and deployed strategies around remedios caseros in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
包括居住在布朗克斯区的墨西哥移民在内,那些非传染性疾病发病率原本就很高的社区,因新型冠状病毒而负担更重。在这种情况下,许多人寻求预防和减轻新冠症状的方法,包括自制疗法。对居住在布朗克斯区的墨西哥移民进行的25次半结构化访谈揭示了他们在新冠疫情期间如何设计和运用(自制疗法)。参与者将使用自制疗法归因于医院人满为患以及权威来源关于预防和缓解新冠的信息有限等因素。研究结果表明,自制疗法是出于必要而产生的一种生存策略,即势在必行的适应力:墨西哥移民针对新冠疫情爆发设计并运用了围绕自制疗法的策略。