Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers - Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox

Informationen zum Autor ALYSHIA GÁLVEZ, an assistant professor at Lehman College of CUNY, is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants. Klappentext According to the Latina health paradox! Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favourable birth outcomes than many other groups! in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for ChangeEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alyshia Gaalvez, Alyshia Galvez, Alyshia Glvez
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.10.2011
• EAN: 9780813551425
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5142-5
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia