An Open Secret

An Open Secret
Author: Natalie L. Kimball
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813590752

Many women throughout the world face the challenge of confronting an unexpected or an unwanted pregnancy, yet these experiences are often shrouded in silence. An Open Secret draws on personal interviews and medical records to uncover the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the South American country of Bolivia. This Andean nation is home to a diverse population of indigenous and mixed-race individuals who practice a range of medical traditions. Centering on the cities of La Paz and El Alto, the book explores how women decided whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies and the medical practices to which women recurred in their search for reproductive health care between the early 1950s and 2010. It demonstrates that, far from constituting private events with little impact on the public sphere, women’s intimate experiences with pregnancy contributed to changing policies and services in reproductive health in Bolivia.

Encyclopedia of Family Health

Encyclopedia of Family Health
Author: David B. Jacoby
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780761474869

An eighteen-volume guide to family health which includes answers to commonly asked medical questions.

TRANSAX, the NCHS System for Producing Multiple Cause-of-death Statistics, 1968-78

TRANSAX, the NCHS System for Producing Multiple Cause-of-death Statistics, 1968-78
Author: Ronald F. Chamblee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1986
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This report describes the characteristics of the TRANSAX (for Translation of AXis) computer software developed by staff of the National Center for Health Statistics to translate multiple cause-of-death data contained on death certificates from a condition (entity) axis of classification to a person (record) axis of classification. This conversion is an essential step in the development of data for meaningful tabulation and analysis. System development, implementation, benefits, features, and applications are discussed.

Data Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emerging Economies

Data Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emerging Economies
Author: Eduardo Rodriguez
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351673165

This book focuses on understanding the analytics knowledge management process and its comprehensive application to various socioeconomic sectors. Using cases from Latin America and other emerging economies, it examines analytics knowledge applications where a solution has been achieved. Written for business students and professionals as well as researchers, the book is filled with practical insight into applying concepts and implementing processes and solutions. The eleven case studies presented in the book incorporate the whole analytics process and are useful reference examples for applying the analytics process for SME organizations in both developing and developed economies. The cases also identify multiple tacit factors to deal with during the implementation of analytics knowledge management processes. These factors, which include data cleaning, data gathering, and interpretation of results, are not always easily identified by analytics practitioners. This book promotes the understanding of analytics methods and techniques. It guides readers through numerous techniques and methods available to analytics practitioners by explaining the strengths and weaknesses of these methods and techniques.

Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Civil Rights in Black and Brown
Author: Max Krochmal
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1477323813

2022 Best Book Award, Oral History Association Hundreds of stories of activists at the front lines of the intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggle Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American activists combated the twin caste systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow. These insurgents worked chiefly within their own racial groups, yet they also looked to each other for guidance and, at times, came together in solidarity. The movements sought more than integration and access: they demanded power and justice. Civil Rights in Black and Brown draws on more than 500 oral history interviews newly collected across Texas, from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods and everywhere in between. The testimonies speak in detail to the structure of racism in small towns and huge metropolises—both the everyday grind of segregation and the haunting acts of racial violence that upheld Texas’s state-sanctioned systems of white supremacy. Through their memories of resistance and revolution, the activists reveal previously undocumented struggles for equity, as well as the links Black and Chicanx organizers forged in their efforts to achieve self-determination.