Public Health Needs and Scientific Opportunities in Research on Latinas

dc.contributor.authorAmaro, Hortensia
dc.contributor.authorde la Torre, Adela
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Nancy J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:53Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:53Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractMuch of the research on women's health has not deepened our understanding of health issues affecting Latinas. Yet integration of research on Latinas into the women's health agenda is important for at least 2 reasons. First, critical public health issues facing Latinas must be better understood if effective interventions designed to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health are to be developed and implemented. Second, studies on the health of Latinas represent unique opportunities to advance scientific understandings of underlying processes relevant to the health of other populations. Such research can further our knowledge of the processes underlying cultural adaptation and negotiation of changing sex roles and how these issues affect the health of women. Critical research and empirical approaches that help us to understand how race, ethnicity, sex, and class shape the health of Latinas will inform broader public health issues.
dc.description.urihttps://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.92.4.525
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ligv-xfqw
dc.identifier.citationAmaro, Hortensia and de la Torre, Adela (2002) Public Health Needs and Scientific Opportunities in Research on Latinas. American Journal of Public Health, 92 (4). pp. 525-529.
dc.identifier.issn0090-0036
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 627
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22668
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjectresearch
dc.subjectwomen's health
dc.subjectLatinas
dc.subjecteliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health
dc.subjectunderlying cultural adaptation
dc.subjectchanging sex roles
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectethnicity
dc.subjectsex
dc.subjectclass
dc.subjectpublic health issues
dc.titlePublic Health Needs and Scientific Opportunities in Research on Latinas
dc.typeArticle

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