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Puerto Rican women and children : issues in health, growth, and development / edited by Gontran Lamberty and Cynthia Garcia Coll.

Title
  1. Puerto Rican women and children : issues in health, growth, and development / edited by Gontran Lamberty and Cynthia Garcia Coll.
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  1. New York : Plenum Press, 1994.

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Additional authors
  1. García Coll, Cynthia T.
  2. Lamberty, Gontran.
Description
  1. xix, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. The Language of science
  2. Topics in social psychiatry
Uniform title
  1. Language of science.
  2. Topics in social psychiatry.
Subject
  1. Child Health Services
  2. Child Welfare
  3. Health Status
  4. Maternal Health Services
  5. Maternal Welfare
  6. Puerto Rican children > Health and hygiene > United States > Congresses
  7. Puerto Rican women > Health and hygiene > Congresses
  8. Puerto Rico
  9. United States
Contents
  1. Overview / Gontran Lamberty and Cynthia Garcia Coll -- 1. A Summary of Puerto Rican Migration to the United States / Clara E. Rodriguez -- 2. Entremundos: The Psychological Dialectics of Puerto Rican Migration and Its Implications for Health / Iris Zavala-Martinez -- 3. Maternal and Child Health and Health Care in Puerto Rico / Pedro J. Santiago-Borrero and Marta Valcarcel -- 4. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Women and Children in Puerto Rico / Carmen Zorrilla, Clemente Diaz, Josefina Romaguera and Millie Martin -- 5. Demographic and Health Characteristics of Puerto Rican Mothers and Their Babies / Stephanie J. Ventura -- 6. Characteristics of Childbearing Hispanic Women in New York City / Sally Ann Lederman and Diana Sierra -- 7. HIV Infection and AIDS among Women: Impact on Hispanic Women and Children Residing in the United States / Barbara W. Kilbourne, Marta Gwinn, Ken G. Castro and Margaret J. Oxtoby.
  2. 8. Physical Growth, Sexual Maturation, and Obesity in Puerto Rican Children / Reynaldo Martorell, Fernando Mendoza, Katherine Baisden and Ivan G. Pawson -- 9. The Cultural Context of Adolescent Childrearing in Three Groups of Urban Minority Mothers / Gail A. Wasserman, Susan A. Brunelli, Virginia A. Rauh and Luz E. Alvarado -- 10. The Cognitive, Behavioral, and Health Status of Mainland Puerto Rican Children in the Infant Health and Development Program / Cecelia M. McCarton, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and James Tonascia -- 11. Distinguishing among Proficiency, Choice, and Attitudes in Questions about Language for Bilinguals / Kenji Hakuta -- 12. Health Status and Health Care Access for Mainland Puerto Rican Children: Results from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey / Fernando S. Mendoza, Glenn S. Takata and Reynaldo Martorell.
  3. 13. Effect of Comprehensive Pediatric Care on the Health of Poor High-Risk Puerto Rican and American Black Children in New York City / Jack Elinson and Penny Liberatos -- Conclusion: Expanding on What Is Known about the Health and Development of Puerto Rican Mothers and Children / Gontran Lamberty and Cynthia Garcia Coll.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.