According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican Immigrant Women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage.
What are the ways that Mexican Immigrant Women Care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical appr.
Alyshia G lvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox.
According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican Immigrant Women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage