TY - JOUR
T1 - Culturally-Protective Health Practices
T2 - Everyday Pregnancy Care Among Mexican Immigrants
AU - Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard
AU - Barrera, Rossana E.
PY - 1997/8/26
Y1 - 1997/8/26
N2 - Everyday pregnancy care may play an important role in explaining why Mexican immigrant women have positive birth outcomes despite relatively low incomes, low formal education levels, and lack of access to medical care. The paper is based on findings from a qualitative study utilizing in-depth ethnographically-in-formed interviews with 41 Mexican immigrant women in Chicago who had recently given birth. Results indicate that everyday pregnancy care guides maternal behaviors in pregnancy and has important effects on birth weight. Implications for the design of prenatal health care and social services for immigrant women are discussed.
AB - Everyday pregnancy care may play an important role in explaining why Mexican immigrant women have positive birth outcomes despite relatively low incomes, low formal education levels, and lack of access to medical care. The paper is based on findings from a qualitative study utilizing in-depth ethnographically-in-formed interviews with 41 Mexican immigrant women in Chicago who had recently given birth. Results indicate that everyday pregnancy care guides maternal behaviors in pregnancy and has important effects on birth weight. Implications for the design of prenatal health care and social services for immigrant women are discussed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84937267626
U2 - 10.1300/J285v06n01_07
DO - 10.1300/J285v06n01_07
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937267626
SN - 1042-8224
VL - 6
SP - 93
EP - 115
JO - Journal of Multicultural Social Work
JF - Journal of Multicultural Social Work
IS - 1-2
ER -