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.
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.
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.
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Acknowledgments 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change Epilogue Notes References Index
Acknowledgments 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change Epilogue Notes References Index
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