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Health-Related Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences of Migrant Dominicans in the Northeastern United States

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose: This study aimed to discover and describe migrant Dominican cultural beliefs and practices related to health, the ways that migrant Dominicans take care of their health in their new environment, and their experience with professional health care
Sobon Sensor, Constance
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source

Puerto Ricans\u27 Evaluations of Dominicans and Dominican Spanish as Reflected in Inter-Personal Interviews

open access: yes, 2011
The present study investigates the connection between linguistic perceptions, speaker identification, and speaker attitude and examines the attitudes of speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish towards Dominican Spanish in sociolinguistic interviews.
Suarez Budenbender, Eva-Marie
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

Caribbean Latinx with moderate-severe asthma bear greater asthma morbidity than other Latinx. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Allergy Clin Immunol, 2022
Cardet JC   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culture Care Meanings, Beliefs and Practices of Rural Dominicans in a Rural Village of the Dominican Republic: An Ethnonursing Study Conceptualized within the Culture Care Theory

open access: yes, 2006
The purpose of this ethnonursing study was to discover, describe and analyze the meanings, beliefs and practices of care for Dominican people living in a rural village of the Dominican Republic.
Schumacher, Gretchen
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Threshold Regression for Fixed‐T$$ T $$ Panel Data with Interactive Fixed Effects

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops a new toolbox for estimation and inference in panel data threshold regression models with interactive fixed effects and a fixed number of time periods, T$$ T $$. The toolbox is designed to be simple, accurate, and computationally efficient.
Jan Ditzen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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