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Hispanic Use Of Alternative Medicine As Demonstrated In Internet Searches, Elad Yom-Tov, William F. Strong, Lupita Rodriguez Strong
Hispanic Use Of Alternative Medicine As Demonstrated In Internet Searches, Elad Yom-Tov, William F. Strong, Lupita Rodriguez Strong
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Objective: We investigated how cultural shifts occur with respect to the use of traditional medicine for influenza-like illness (ILI) within the Latino population near the US-Mexico border.
Methods: We extracted searches of ILI treatments (modern, traditional western, and traditional Hispanic) to the Bing search engine from 5 US states near the US-Mexico border. The incidence of these searches was correlated with county-level demographic data and ILI incidence.
Results: The fraction of queries related to Hispanic medicines is correlated with the distance from the US-Mexico border (Spearman rho = -0.24), which is a slower decay than that observed in the use …