Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies Analysis

Healthcare for workers has been difficult to quite understand. It comes with many issues and solutions in which many are not talked about or understood. In Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies, Seth Holmes talks about the fieldworks and the injuries that happen to these workers. The main focus with cultural competency is the lack of training that one has in the health field training. He explores the structural factors that affect the migrant healthcare and how the health professions perceive these migrant patients. “This focus suggest that the culture of the patient is the problem that needs to be understood and the barrier that should overcome in order to provide effective health care.” (153 Holmes). Holmes basically refers that the problem still is racism and the way that these farmworkers are dealt with when they go into clinics and also how these migrant farmworkers lack the language. The way people are trained in Mexico and the United States are truly very different. The ways that the migrant undocumented workers are not given the true and good health care is wrong and should change. The solution to change the lack of competency is to teach the migrant workers what they are lacking and making sure that the health professions are trained correctly. Health care professions are affected by social, economic, and political structures that make it difficult to treat migrant patients the way they should be treated. By these three structures health professionals like doctors and nurses cannot be blamed for their patients suffering,but the patients themselves. Many of this …show more content…
Many of them are being judged by who they are and where they come from and by that they are not treated to illness. The illnesses that these migrant patients have are from working out on the field and because of that they should be treated and acknowledged. There needs to be more solutions to this problem and less