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9780306466380

Stress and Resilience

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306466380

  • ISBN10:

    0306466384

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-30
  • Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

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Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality - especially during pregnancy. Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem examines the processes through which economic circumstances, environmental issues, and social conditions create situations that expose African American women to stress and chronic strain. Detailing the individual and community assets and strategies used to address these conditions, this volume provides a model methodology for translating research into public health and social action. Based on interactive community partnered research, Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem Facilitates more exact hypotheses about the relationship between risk factors, protective factors and reproductive health; Furnishes a better understanding of chronic disease patterns and suggests more effective interventions to reduce rates of infant mortality; Incorporates the voices of the community and of women themselves through their own words and actions; Sheds light on epidemiologic research and intervention protocols; Examines the social context in which reproductive behaviors are practiced; Provides a holistic framework in which to understand infant mortality; And more. Filling a large gap in the literature on the social context of reproduction this important monograph offers indispensable information for public health researchers, program planners, anthropologists, sociologists, urban planners, medical providers, policy makers, and private funders.

Table of Contents

Reproductive Health, Harlem, and Research
1(20)
Scenes in Harlem
1(1)
Introduction
2(1)
The Setting
2(6)
Harlem and New York City
2(2)
Demographic Characteristics of Central Harlem
4(2)
Morbidity and Mortality
6(1)
Reproductive Health
6(2)
Methodology
8(7)
Research Objectives
8(1)
Ethnographic Field Research
9(6)
Community Participation
15(2)
Community Advisory Board
15(1)
Community Dialogue Groups
16(1)
Stress and Reproduction
17(4)
Where People Live: The Environmental Context of Reproduction
21(52)
Introduction
21(1)
Environment as a Potential Source of Stress and Chronic Strain
21(11)
The Condition of Public Space
22(3)
Access to Food and Other Necessities
25(4)
Drugs, Violence, and Police Protection
29(3)
Community Assets
32(11)
Parks and Cultural Resources
32(2)
Faith Institutions and Spiritual Resources
34(2)
Living in a Black Community
36(7)
Housing Conditions
43(10)
Types of Housing
43(4)
Housing Problems
47(6)
Fighting Back: Coping with Housing-Induced Stress
53(11)
Housing Activism
53(3)
Housing Court
56(3)
Tenant and Block Associations
59(5)
Access to Social Services
64(9)
Schools
64(3)
Public Assistance
67(6)
Where People Work: The Economic Context of Reproduction
73(34)
Introduction
73(2)
Work Site Descriptions
75(2)
Fast-Food Restaurant
76(1)
Office Site
76(1)
Hospital Site
76(1)
Self-Employed Women
77(1)
Social Service Providers
77(1)
Work Site-Related Stressors
77(18)
Pace of Work
78(4)
Schedule Flexibility
82(3)
Physical and Environmental Strain
85(3)
Role Hierarchies
88(3)
Provider-Client Interactions
91(3)
Perceived Stress
94(1)
Current Sources of Employment and Income Insecurity
95(2)
Office Site
95(1)
Hospital Site
95(1)
Self-Employed Women
96(1)
Social Service Sites
97(1)
Consequences of Employment and Income Insecurity
97(7)
Low-Income Women
97(5)
Middle-Stratum Women
102(2)
Race, Discrimination, and Work as Sources of Interrelated Stress
104(3)
Social Support and Reproductive Health
107(30)
Introduction
107(6)
Sources of Stress
108(2)
Coping: Individual Strategies
110(3)
Support Systems and Reproductive Health
113(10)
Family Values
113(3)
Low-Income Women
116(2)
Middle-Stratum Women
118(3)
Differences and Continuties by Class
121(1)
Kinwork
122(1)
Family, Marriage, and Female-Male Relationships
123(7)
Pregnancy, Motherhood, and the Social Importance of Reproduction
130(7)
Social Support and Pregnancy Decisions---``Wantedness''
131(3)
The Role of Support Systems in Shaping Attitudes Toward Pregnancy
134(3)
Health Care Delivery and Reproductive Health
137(24)
Pregnancy Intendeness and Recognition
138(12)
Seeking Out Prenatal Care: Barriers and Strategies
140(3)
Types of Prental Care
143(7)
Doctors, Patients, and Different Perceptions
150(3)
Between Engagement and Distrust
153(3)
Explanations for Pregnancy Loss
156(5)
Pregnancy Loss and Conceptualizing Bad Outcomes
156(5)
Race, Class, Gender, and Health
161(6)
Implications for Reproductive Health
162(1)
The Sojourner Syndrome
163(4)
Appendix: Community Profile Charts 167(30)
References 197(6)
Index 203

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