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

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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. In Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers, Alyshia G̀lvez takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gálvez, Alyshia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soziale Situation
Schwangerschaft
Pränatale Medizin
Mexikanische Einwanderin
Kulturvergleich
Women > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Social conditions.
Prenatal care.
Childbirth.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Soins prenatals > États-Unis.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Mexique > Conditions sociales.
Childbirth > United States > Cross-cultural studies.
Prenatal care > United States.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Women > Mexico > Social conditions.
USA.
United States.
Mexico.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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. In Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers, Alyshia G̀lvez 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 book is both a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society.
Physical Description:1 online resource (230 pages).
ISBN:9780813552019

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