Sociological Concomitants of Health Orientations: A Partial Replication of Suchman

Abstract

The present paper is a partial replication of the late Edward Suchman's study of health orientations in Washington Heights. Data were collected for a representative sample of Los Angeles County, and Suchman's medical orientation, health knowledge, and preventative behavior items were asked. In addition, several community orientation items that difler from Suchman's, but partake of the same theoretical domain as those he used were asked. The data are analyed for Mexican-Americans, Blacks, and Whites-Anglos, and within categories of income. The results difler from those Suchman found in Washington Heights in a number of important respects. Several diflerences of time and place are suggested as variables that might account for the diflerences observed between the two samples.

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