Author: Gay AlfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Incidence of and Factors Relating to Prematurity and Low Birth Weight in the Spanish-American Population in Clovis, New Mexico
Author: Gay AlfordFactors Associated with Low Birth Weight in Mexican Americans and Mexicans
Author: Francis NotzonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth weight, Low
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Texas Tech Journal of Education
Author: Texas Tech UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Insight Into the "Latina Epidemiologic Paradox"
Author: Marie Elizabeth SharpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Preventing Low Birthweight
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309035309
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Despite recent declines in infant mortality, the rates of low birthweight deliveries in the United States continue to be high. Part I of this volume defines the significance of the problems, presents current data on risk factors and etiology, and reviews recent state and national trends in the incidence of low birthweight among various groups. Part II describes the preventive approaches found most desirable and considers their costs. Research needs are discussed throughout the volume.
The Multi-level Components of the Hispanic/Latina Birth Paradox
Author: Emily P. KnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The birth rate of Latinas has been driving population growth in the United States since the 1980s (Stepler & Lopez, 2016; Flores, 2017). Latina women generally have a high burden of risk factors compared to white women, such as low levels of education and high poverty rates (Flores, Lpez, & Radford, 2017), but these risks are purportedly not reflected in their birth outcomes (Franzini, Ribble, & Keddie, 2001; Hummer, Powers, Pullum, Gossman, & Frisbie, 2007; Palloni & Morenoff, 2001). The phenomenon of paradoxically low levels of preterm birth, low birth weight, and infant mortality relative to their non-Hispanic white counterparts has been labeled as the Latina birth paradox. However, the use of the term paradox to describe the association is controversial due to the large variation in the birth outcomes (low birth weight, infant mortality, preterm birth, maternal risk factors), control populations (white mothers, black mothers, low acculturation Latinas, foreign-born Latinas), and the lack of acknowledgement of the heterogeneity in culture and ancestry of the Latina population (Palloni & Morenoff, 2001).This scoping review was conducted to better understand how multi-level components contribute to studies related to the paradox, as well as determine the breadth of research on this topic and determine the extent of the support for the Latina birth paradox. In total, 105 peer-reviewed studies were identified through the use of the CINAHL, Web of Science, and PubMed databases. Gray, or non-peer reviewed literature was included to understand the policy climate surrounding the Latina birth paradox. Out of the 104 studies in this scoping review, 40 (38.5%) described their sample only as Hispanic or Latina, 27 described their sample as only Mexican (26%), and 27 compared multiple Latina subgroups (26%). About 60% of studies were cross sectional or retrospective. Different studies report support for the paradox in different ways. Some examined 1) whether immigrant women had better birth outcomes than U.S. born women, 2) whether low acculturation women had better outcomes than high acculturation women, 3) whether specific subgroups had an advantage over others, 4) differences in health behaviors, and 5) others compared birth outcomes to white women. Many studies (33.7%) did not even examine the paradox, but rather examined factors that could contribute to the purported paradox. The largest group of studies examining the paradox found evidence of the paradox for some ethnic groups and outcomes, but not for others (21.1%), and were labeled as partially supporting the paradox. There was almost an even split between the ten studies that supported the paradox and the nine that did not support the paradox when using white women as a comparison group. Very few gray literature sources mentioned the paradox at all, but reported on the effects of family structure and immigration policy on birth outcomes in Latinas, which were topics also discussed in the peer-reviewed literature. Determining the existence of the paradox based on the current available research is difficult, given the aforementioned lack of consensus in the white-literature, as well as the variation by study type and comparison groups utilized. Our findings bring into question the idea that the paradox applies to all Latinas. In fact, this over simplification may be a barrier to current public health understanding of this quickly growing, diverse U.S. population. A current limitation is that past research testing the paradox often focused on individual level risk factors rather than larger, population level influences. Future research should test the presence of the paradox after accounting for both individual and population level factors, as well as their interactions.
Preventing Low Birthweight
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309035354
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Written for a broad audience, including program administrators, policymakers, teachers, students, and health care professionals and their patientsâ€"anyone with an interest in preventing low birthweightâ€"this summary is a condensation of the full report, Preventing Low Birthweight. It clearly and concisely covers most of the topics discussed in the comprehensive volume. 2-9 copies, $4.00 each; 10 or more copies, $2.50 each (no other discounts apply).
Spain, a Global History
Author: Luis Francisco Martinez MontesPublisher:
ISBN: 9788494938115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.
Fiscal Federalism in Latin America
Author: Eduardo Wiesner DuránPublisher: IDB
ISBN: 9781931003483
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This text helps Latin American policymakers meet the challenge of decentralization to improve public sector performance at all levels of government by appropriately assigning jurisdiction over public goods, services, tax authority and user charges.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description