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Social Determinants of the Latinx Diabetes Health Disparity: A Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Analysis

open access: yesSSM - Population Health, 2021
Latinx people living in the U.S. report a disproportionately high prevalence of diabetes. This project builds on the existing social determinants of diabetes literature by examining factors associated with a greater likelihood of diabetes and ...
Kate Cartwright
exaly   +3 more sources

Latinx Digital Memory: Identity Making in Real Time

open access: yesSocial Media and Society, 2019
Recently, there has been an increase in cultural Latinx social media platforms, leading to a renaissance of digital visual cultural memory work around Latinidad. This work focuses on how Latinx digital memory participates in an ongoing identity formation
Melissa Villa-Nicholas
exaly   +2 more sources

Aspiring physicians program: description and characterization of the support processes for an undergraduate pathway program to medicine

open access: yesMedical Education Online, 2023
Latinx physician rates are lower than non-Latinx white physicians. Many pathway programs to careers in medicine have been established for underrepresented students, yet few focus on premedical college education or undergraduate pathway programs, which ...
Arianne Teherani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“I’m Going to Live My Life Freely”: Authenticity as an Indicator of Belonging Among Urban Latinx LGBTQ+ Youth

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2022
While there is a growing body of scholarship on the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in school and community settings, less is known about Latinx LGBTQ+ youth specifically.
Maru Gonzalez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" by Jose O. Fernandez (The Ohio State University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2023
Jose O. Fernandez’s "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures " is an innovative project that takes conversations about literary and cultural history in a new direction. Recognizing the efforts of Black and Latinx scholars in
Laura Irwin
doaj   +1 more source

“Waking Up Every Day With the Worry”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Anxiety in Undocumented Latinx College Students

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
To date, little research has taken a mixed-methods strategy to consider the ways in which living “in the shadows” without recognized legal status may affect mental health.
Carola Suárez-Orozco   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overcrowding and exposure to secondhand smoke increase risk for COVID-19 infection among Latinx families in the greater San Francisco Bay Area

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2021
Introduction Environmental risk factors, including community level pollution burden and exposure to smoking and secondhand smoke, have not been evaluated in relation to risk for infection with COVID-19 in high risk, urban Latinx families.
Andrea DeCastro Mendez*   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Learn from Chicanas? The Relevance of U.S. Third World Chicana Thinkers in Polish Feminist Research [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl, 2022
American feminist theories have long energised Polish scholarly work, and many Polish academics have drawn on the research of renowned American writers such as Judith Butler.
Aleksandra Hołubowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Centering Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ strategies to develop talent in computing fields

open access: yesTapuya, 2021
Hispanics have become the largest ethnic minority in the US Better serving Hispanics to succeed in tertiary education and scientific fields like computing is critical to build equitable life opportunities and strengthen the US workforce.
Anne-Marie Núñez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About COVID-19 Among Adults in the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs are cognitive outcomes that serve as key determinants of engaging in health behaviors, likely including vaccination and other mitigation behaviors against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Paul L. Reiter   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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