Download or read book The Experience of Pregnancy Among Hispanic Women written by Vivian K. White and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waiting for Bebe written by Lourdes Alcañiz and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Waiting for Bebe" will deal with the unique concerns, both physiological and cultural, that Hispanic women face during pregnancy. In addition to the increased risk of gestational diabetes, Latinas also must be aware of their increased risks for developing hypertension, gallbladder disease, tuberculosis, rubella, obesity, and depression, all of which, if left undiagnosed at the time of pregnancy, can have devastating effects on the unborn child. "Waiting for Bebe" not only will address these specific health concerns, but will also explore the rich cultural traditions and myths surrounding pregnancy in Hispanic culture.

Download or read book A Correlational Study of Hispanic Women s Entry Into Prenatal Care in Relation to Parity written by Cheryl Louise Butera and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Birth Settings in America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

Download or read book Pregnancy Risk Factors and Reproductive Outcomes Among Hispanic Women in the Comprehensive Perinatal Program written by Jan Baughman Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stress and Coping as Determinants of Adaptation to Pregnancy in Hispanic Women written by Robert George Perez and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Psychological and Physiological Adaptation to Pregnancy and Childbirth in Low Income Hispanic Women written by Cynthia Ann Telles and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seeking a Healthy Baby written by Carole Wieland Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Patient Citizens Immigrant Mothers written by Alyshia Galvez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth? This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The mystery of the paradox lies perhaps not in the recipes Mexican-born women have for good perinatal health, but in the prenatal encounter in the United States. Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers is a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society

Download or read book Psychosocial Factors Affecting Pregnant Hispanic Women written by Marushka Leanne Silveira and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prenatal psychosocial stress, anxiety, and depression are common, with higher rates among Hispanic women. While evidence supports an adverse effect of psychosocial factors on glucose intolerance and oral health, studies during pregnancy are sparse, particularly among Hispanic women. Therefore, we examined correlates of psychosocial factors and their associations with glucose intolerance and oral health among pregnant women. The first project examined correlates of high stress among 1,426 pregnant Hispanic participants in Proyecto Buena Salud, a prospective cohort study. Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale was administered in early, mid- and late pregnancy. Using multivariable logistic regression, we found that increasing age, pre-pregnancy alcohol, and smoking were positively associated with high early pregnancy stress. Greater number of adults in the household was positively associated with high mid-pregnancy stress; while Spanish language preference and annual household income were inversely associated with high mid-pregnancy stress. Likewise, income was inversely associated with high late pregnancy stress. The second project examined the association between perceived stress and glucose intolerance among 1,115 pregnant Hispanic women from Proyecto Buena Salud. Stress during early and mid-pregnancy was measured using perceived stress scale. Medical records were abstracted for blood glucose values. In multivariable logistic regression models, increase in stress from early-mid pregnancy was positively associated with risk of gestational diabetes. The third project examined the association between anxiety and depression and risk of tooth loss and use of oral health services among 402 pregnant participants in the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-based telephone survey among the non-institutionalized U.S. adult population. Using multivariable logistic regression, we found that lifetime diagnosed anxiety was positively associated with tooth loss and non-use of oral health services in the past year. We found no association between depression and oral health. To summarize, this dissertation adds to the limited research on psychosocial factors and their associated impacts on the health of pregnant women. Evaluation of correlates of stress may be useful in identifying women at high risk for prenatal stress, particularly Hispanic women. Early identification of modifiable psychosocial risk factors may provide an opportunity for prevention of glucose intolerance and oral disease during pregnancy.

Download or read book Cultural and Psychobiological Processes in Pregnant Latina Women written by Isabel Francheska Ramos and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research indicates that women who experience higher levels of anxiety related to a current pregnancy have a higher risk of preterm birth (Blackmore, Gustafsson, Gilchrist, Wyman, & O'Connor, 2016; Dunkel Schetter, 2010). Previous studies demonstrate that pregnancy anxiety is associated with higher levels of placental corticotropin-releasing hormone (pCRH) which in turn, triggers the timing of delivery. Some evidence suggests that Latinas experience heightened pregnancy anxiety (Ramos et al., 2019), but no study has documented their specific experiences of pregnancy anxiety. This dissertation tested a model that incorporates components of biopsychosocial and cultural processes in pregnancy across two studies. The first study examined ethnic and cultural moderation linking pregnancy anxiety to the length of gestation in a sample of pregnant Latina and non-Latina White women (N = 125). These women completed interviews and provided blood samples on three separate occasions during their pregnancy. Pregnancy anxiety in the first, second, and third trimesters each predicted shorter length of gestation. Latina and non-Latina White women did not differ in pregnancy anxiety and had similar gestational length at birth. Moderation analyses on the full sample revealed that pregnancy anxiety was associated with gestational length for Latinas only. A similar pattern emerged in analyses on the subsample of Latinas for moderation by acculturation such that pregnancy anxiety predicted the timing of delivery only among low acculturated Latinas. Neither levels nor slopes of pCRH mediated the associations between pregnancy anxiety and length of gestation. This work adds to existing evidence that pregnancy anxiety predicts timing of birth and affirms that ethnicity and acculturation are relevant for understanding cultural and biopsychosocial processes leading to birth outcomes. The second study used a qualitative methodology to investigate pregnancy anxiety and cultural beliefs surrounding pregnancy among Latinas. One focus group and 11 individual interviews were conducted in Spanish with pregnant Latinas. Thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) revealed that Latinas felt that anxiety during pregnancy was normal, and that they were concerned about childbirth, losing their baby, their baby being born with a birth defect, and the current issues in the United States. Latinas felt lucky to be pregnant, believed that pregnancy was a blessing, and stressed the importance of maintaining a healthy pregnancy. Themes about family involvement and culturally-driven privileged status also emerged from the data. Taken together, these two studies further affirm that pregnancy anxiety contributes to risk for preterm birth and adds evidence that associations of pregnancy anxiety and gestational length may be driven in part by ethnicity and by cultural factors among Latinas. Future studies using larger samples should further investigate these issues utilizing prospective designs with a closer examination of cultural processes. Such work can further identify the role of culture in prenatal processes affecting maternal and child outcomes and help to understand the nature and risks of pregnancy anxiety in Latinas.

Download or read book The WIC Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of State Level Omnibus Immigrant Laws on Pregnancy Outcomes Among Latina Women in the US written by Amanda Landrian Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preterm birth and low birth weight are the leading causes of infant morbidity and mortality, are associated with an increased risk of poor health and economic outcomes throughout the life course and are an important indicator of overall population health. In the US, disparities in these outcomes exist across both race/ethnicity and nativity status, whereby US- and foreign-born Latina women are more likely to experience preterm birth and low birth weight than US-born white women. Latina women are also less likely than their white counterparts to utilize prenatal care, an important determinant of adverse birth outcomes. These disparities persist even after controlling for socioeconomic indicators, health behaviors, and medical risk factors, pointing to sociopolitical factors, like state-level policy, as potential causes.States have increasingly set their own immigrant policy agenda, passing restrictive policies denying immigrants' rights and access to health-promoting resources. Omnibus immigrant laws are considered the harshest state-level immigrant policies to ever pass in the United States (US). These laws were passed with the explicit intent to drive immigrants to "self-deport" by severely regulating their daily life across multiple domains within a single bill. It is suggested that restrictive immigrant policies like omnibus laws had deleterious effects on pregnancy outcomes among Latina women, regardless of their nativity status, due to widespread stress and fear, increased experiences of racial profiling and discrimination, and decreased access to beneficial social institutions and material conditions following their passage. However, to date, no studies have considered the totality of omnibus immigrant laws enacted across the US states and their potential effects on pregnancy outcomes among Latina women. Moreover, questions remain related to the extent that US-born Latinas would be affected by omnibus immigrant laws, especially given that these laws do not explicitly target US-born individuals as written. Finally, it has been posited that differences in the effects of restrictive immigrant laws may also exist across national origin subgroups; however, to date, no studies have formally evaluated potential differences in the health effects of restrictive immigrant laws across national origin subgroups of Latinos. This dissertation utilized national natality data from 2005 to 2014, encompassing the period during which omnibus immigrant legislation was passed across the US states, and a quasi-experimental interrupted time series design to: 1) determine the effects of omnibus immigrant laws on preterm birth, low birth weight, late entry into prenatal care, and inadequate prenatal care utilization, respectively, among Latina women in the US; 2) understand differences in these effects across nativity status, comparing outcomes among foreign-born versus US-born Latina women; and 3) determine if differences in the effects of omnibus immigrant laws on pregnancy outcomes exist across the largest national origin subgroups of Latinos in the US, comparing outcomes among women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin or descent. I found substantial evidence that the passage of omnibus immigrant laws caused a significant increase in the odds of preterm birth among Latina women, largely driven by effects among infants born to foreign-born Latinas generally and Mexican-born Latinas specifically. I also found evidence that the passage of omnibus immigrant laws resulted in an increased odds of preterm birth among all Latinas of Mexican origin or descent, regardless of nativity status. I also find some evidence that the passage of omnibus immigrant law resulted in an increased odds of low birth weight among infants born to foreign-born women from Mexico and Latina women of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin or descent, respectively, but a decreased odds of low birth weight among women of Cuban origin or descent. Moreover, although omnibus immigrant laws had either no effect on late entry into prenatal care or resulted in an improvement in the timing of prenatal care initiation for some groups, I found that their passage led to an increase in the odds of inadequate prenatal care utilization among foreign- and US-born Latinas, foreign-born Latinas from Mexico, and women of Puerto Rican and Cuban origin or descent, respectively. This suggests that the passage of omnibus immigrant laws may be more likely to impact women's ability to attend all the recommended number of prenatal care visits throughout pregnancy rather than the timing of prenatal care initiation. Notably, unlike my findings related to preterm birth which were extremely robust to sensitivity analyses, findings related to the effects of omnibus immigrant laws on low birth weight and prenatal care indicators were more likely to be sensitive to the inclusion of specific states (or policies) in the analytic model. This suggests that the extent that omnibus immigrant laws influence these outcomes may depend more on the specific provisions (or mix of provisions) included within each omnibus immigrant law and other factors of the local and state context. Finally, although I found limited evidence that the passage of omnibus immigrant laws resulted in significant spillover effects when assessing outcomes among US-born Latinas generally, my finding that their passage resulted in poorer pregnancy outcomes among those of Puerto Rican origin or descent provides evidence that these laws may still result in negative health outcomes even among those individuals not directly targeted by the laws as written (as all Puerto Ricans would have US citizenship regardless of whether or not they are born on the island or within the 50 US states). This dissertation adds to a growing body of literature that investigates the effects of restrictive state-level immigrant policies on health outcomes among Latinos and is the first to demonstrate variability in the effects of such policies across the three largest national origin subgroups of Latinos in the US, highlighting the importance of disaggregating data in analyses to better account for the vast heterogeneity that exists among this group. These findings also have important implications for programming and policy. These findings can be used to develop interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health outcomes that are targeted toward specific communities (e.g., foreign-born Latinas or those of Mexican origin or descent) who may be particularly vulnerable to the negative consequences of restrictive immigrant policies. Additionally, although an omnibus immigrant law has not been passed in nearly a decade, immigration remains a highly salient topic in US politics and restrictive immigrant policies continue to be a central feature of the state legislative agenda. Thus, these findings not only illuminate the impacts of omnibus immigrant laws specifically, but also shed light on the potential negative effects of other state-level, single-issue restrictive immigrant policies commonly passed throughout the US each year. In turn, this dissertation research may be used to inform contemporary immigrant policy reform, debate, and advocacy work directed at both the federal and sub-federal levels.

Download or read book The Best Intentions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-07-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. pregnanciesâ€"and 81 percent of pregnancies among adolescentsâ€"are unintended. Yet the topic of preventing these unintended pregnancies has long been treated gingerly because of personal sensitivities and public controversies, especially the angry debate over abortion. Additionally, child welfare advocates long have overlooked the connection between pregnancy planning and the improved well-being of families and communities that results when children are wanted. Now, current issuesâ€"health care and welfare reform, and the new international focus on populationâ€"are drawing attention to the consequences of unintended pregnancy. In this climate The Best Intentions offers a timely exploration of family planning issues from a distinguished panel of experts. This committee sheds much-needed light on the questions and controversies surrounding unintended pregnancy. The book offers specific recommendations to put the United States on par with other developed nations in terms of contraceptive attitudes and policies, and it considers the effectiveness of over 20 pregnancy prevention programs. The Best Intentions explores problematic definitionsâ€""unintended" versus "unwanted" versus "mistimed"â€"and presents data on pregnancy rates and trends. The book also summarizes the health and social consequences of unintended pregnancies, for both men and women, and for the children they bear. Why does unintended pregnancy occur? In discussions of "reasons behind the rates," the book examines Americans' ambivalence about sexuality and the many other social, cultural, religious, and economic factors that affect our approach to contraception. The committee explores the complicated web of peer pressure, life aspirations, and notions of romance that shape an individual's decisions about sex, contraception, and pregnancy. And the book looks at such practical issues as the attitudes of doctors toward birth control and the place of contraception in both health insurance and "managed care." The Best Intentions offers frank discussion, synthesis of data, and policy recommendations on one of today's most sensitive social topics. This book will be important to policymakers, health and social service personnel, foundation executives, opinion leaders, researchers, and concerned individuals.

Download or read book Normal Childbirth written by Susan Downe and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition builds on the strengths of the popular first edition, with updated national and international data, and the most recent debate around the controversial area of childbirth. With the increasing risk of litigation, there can be a tendency to classify women as 'at risk' if they present with even a hint of a problem. This is a contentious area and midwives need to be aware of the wide parameters of 'normal' in order to practise autonomously, effectively and safely. This book provides an evidence-based source for all midwives and other health professionals with an interest normal birth. Explores the wider range of normal childbirth that is unique to individual mothers and babies Challenges the assumptions underpinning current beliefs and attitudes Updated statistics, both national and international Latest research and debate

Download or read book Hispanics and the Future of America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.

Download or read book Immigrant America written by Alejandro Portes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the entire text with new information and added a vivid array of new vignettes and illustrations. Recognized for its superb portrayal of immigration and immigrant lives in the United States, this book probes the dynamics of immigrant politics, examining questions of identity and loyalty among newcomers, and explores the psychological consequences of varying modes of migration and acculturation. The authors look at patterns of settlement in urban America, discuss the problems of English-language acquisition and bilingual education, explain how immigrants incorporate themselves into the American economy, and examine the trajectories of their children from adolescence to early adulthood. With a vital new chapter on religion—and fresh analyses of topics ranging from patterns of incarceration to the mobility of the second generation and the unintended consequences of public policies—this updated edition is indispensable for framing and informing issues that promise to be even more hotly and urgently contested as the subject moves to the center of national debate..