The Determinants of Breastfeeding for Mexican Migrant Women

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adela de la Torre ◽  
Lynda Rush
1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 728-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adela de la Torre ◽  
Lynda Rush

This article develops an economic model for assessing Mexican agricultural migrants decision to breastfeed. The resulting hypotheses from our model are linked to health care and welfare program access, cultural factors, and employment. Using a probit analysis of our variables, a major finding is that non-traditional practices such as out of home childcare, birth control and alcohol use have a negative impact on the probability of breastfeeding. We also found that working women in our sample population are less likely to breastfeed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Guerrero ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Gudelia Rangel ◽  
J. Eduardo Gonzalez-Fagoaga ◽  
Ana Martinez-Donate

Signs ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry L. Preibisch ◽  
Evelyn Encalada Grez

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Peter C. Davis, Jr. ◽  
Linda L. Rankin

Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s, there have been stereotypes about certain groups of people being infected with the disease. This paper is based on a qualitative study consisting of twenty (n=20) interviews with Mexican migrant women in Southeast Idaho. The study investigated who Mexican migrant women believe are most likely to be infected with HIV, and then analyzed the beliefs in a socio-cultural context, examining a loss of both social and material capital as a catalyst for these beliefs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1216-1226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Velez ◽  
Ana Palomo-Zerfas ◽  
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez ◽  
Guadalupe X. Ayala ◽  
Tracy L. Finlayson

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