Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Latinas and Maternal and Child Health: Research, Policy, and Representation

  • Commentary
  • Published:
Maternal and Child Health Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This article has been updated

Abstract

Over the last 50 years, the Latino population in the US has grown and changed. Latinos are the nation’s largest minority group and among this group, there is incredible diversity. Much of Latino health research and outcomes have been treated interchangeably with immigrant health, but as the US Latino population evolves so should the focus of Latino health research. We contend that as maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes are an utmost important indicator of a country’s health, and as Latinos make up 18% of the US’s population, it is imperative that we move past dated research frameworks to a more nuanced understanding of the health of Latina women and children. We summarize how acculturation has been used to describe differences in MCH outcomes, discuss how the umbrella term “Latino” masks subgroups differences, explore Afro-Latinidad in MCH, examine the effects of the sociopolitical climate on the health of families, and demonstrate the limited representation of Latinos in MCH research. We conclude that a deeper understanding of Latino health is necessary to achieve health equity for Latina women and their children.

Significance

What is already known on the subject? The Hispanic Health Paradox, the phenomenon that Latinos have better health outcomes than their socioeconomic status would predict, breaks down when empirical studies extended beyond descriptive research and examined Latino subgroups. Substantial heterogeneity within Latinos is observed is health outcomes, especially in maternal and child health.

What this article adds to the literature? We provide a comprehensive demonstration of the varied determinants of maternal and child health in Latinas such as acculturation, the Latino monolith, race, policies, and representation.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Data Availability

N/A.

Code Availability

N/A.

Change history

  • 20 April 2023

    The spelling of word "public charge has been corrected."

References

  • Abraído-Lanza, A. F., Armbrister, A. N., Flórez, K. R., & Aguirre, A. N. (2006). Toward a theory-driven model of acculturation in public health research. American Journal of Public Health, 96(8), 1342–1346.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Abraído-Lanza, A. F., Echeverría, S. E., & Flórez, K. R. (2016). Latino immigrants, acculturation, and health: Promising new directions in research. Annual Review of Public Health, 37, 219–236.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Ahluwalia, I. B., Morrow, B., & Hsia, J. (2005). Why do women stop breastfeeding? Findings from the pregnancy risk assessment and monitoring system. Pediatrics, 116(6), 1408–1412.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ai, A. L., Appel, H. B., & Lee, J. (2018). Acculturation factors related to obesity of Latino American men nationwide. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(5), 1421–1430.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Akturk, H. K., Agarwal, S., Hoffecker, L., & Shah, V. N. (2021). Inequity in racial-ethnic representation in randomized controlled trials of diabetes technologies in type 1 diabetes: Critical need for new standards. Diabetes Care, 44(6), e121–e123.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Artiga DPS. 2022 Changes to the Public Charge Inadmissibility Rule and the Implications for Health Care. https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/2022-changes-to-the-public-charge-inadmissibility-rule-and-the-implications-for-health-care/#footnote-553766-5. Published 2022. Accessed February 14, 2023.

  • American Public Health Association. Helen Rodriguez-Trias Award. https://www.apha.org/about-apha/apha-awards/helen-rodriguez-trias-award. Accessed June 1 2022.

  • Barcelona de Mendoza, V., Harville, E., Theall, K., Buekens, P., & Chasan-Taber, L. (2016). Acculturation and intention to breastfeed among a population of predominantly Puerto Rican women. Birth, 43(1), 78–85.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Barcelona de Mendoza, V., Harville, E., Theall, K., Buekens, P., & Chasan-Taber, L. (2016). Effects of acculturation on prenatal anxiety among Latina women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 19(4), 635–644.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Berry, J. W. (1980). Acculturation as varieties of adaptation. Acculturation: Theory Models and Some New Findings, 9, 25.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bleich, S. N., & Fleischhacker, S. (2019). Hunger or deportation: Implications of the Trump administration’s proposed public charge rule. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 51(4), 505–509.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blumenshine, P., Egerter, S., Barclay, C. J., Cubbin, C., & Braveman, P. A. (2010). Socioeconomic disparities in adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 39(3), 263–272.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Casagrande, S. S., Avilés-Santa, M. L., Sotres-Alvarez, D., Gallo, L., Simon, M., Kominiarek, M., Talavera, G., Stuebe, A. M., Potter, J., Perera, M. J., & Isasi, C. (2022). Association between gestational diabetes and 6-year incident diabetes: Results from the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 10(6), e002980.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Center; PR. Hispanic Population and Origin in Select U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2014. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/interactives/hispanic-population-in-select-u-s-metropolitan-areas/. Published 2016. Accessed November 18, 2022.

  • Chasan-Taber, L., Kini, N., Harvey, M. W., Pekow, P., & Dole, N. (2020). The association between acculturation and prenatal psychosocial stress among Latinas. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 22(3), 534–544.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Child FIFo, Studies F. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2017. Government Printing Office; 2017.

  • Collins NL, Dunkel-Schetter C, Lobel M, Scrimshaw S. Social support in pregnancy: psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression. 2004.

  • Couloumbe KG, William Rafael. The Changing U.S. Workforce: The Growing Hispanic Demographic and the Workplace. Society for Human Resource Management and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute;2016.

  • Cuevas, A. G., Dawson, B. A., & Williams, D. R. (2016). Race and skin color in Latino health: An analytic review. American Journal of Public Health., 106(12), 2131–2136.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Davis, S. (2022). Unrepeatable harms: Forced sterilization at ICE detention centers. Human Rights Brief, 25(2), 15.

    Google Scholar 

  • de la Peña, C. M., Pineda, L., & Punsky, B. (2019). Working with parents and children separated at the border: Examining the impact of the zero tolerance policy and beyond. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 12, 153–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Denize, K. M., Acharya, N., Prince, S. A., da Silva, D. F., Harvey, A. L., Ferraro, Z. M., & Adamo, K. B. (2018). Addressing cultural, racial and ethnic discrepancies in guideline discordant gestational weight gain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PeerJ, 6, e5407.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • DeSisto, C. L., & McDonald, J. A. (2018). Variation in birth outcomes by mother’s country of birth among Hispanic women in the United States, 2013. Public Health Reports, 133(3), 318–328.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Dixon, B., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., James-Todd, T., Ertel, K., Krieger, N., Kleinman, K. P., Rich-Edwards, J. W., Gillman, M. W., & Taveras, E. M. (2012). Maternal experiences of racial discrimination and child weight status in the first 3 years of life. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 3(6), 433–441.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dubina K. Hispanics in the Labor Force: 5 Facts. US Department of Labor Blog. https://blog.dol.gov/2021/09/15/hispanics-in-the-labor-force-5-facts. Published 2021. Accessed April 15, 2022.

  • Dudley, M., Steel, Z., Mares, S., & Newman, L. (2012). Children and young people in immigration detention. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 25(4), 285–292.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Elder, J. P., Broyles, S. L., Brennan, J. J., de Nuncio, M. L. Z., & Nader, P. R. (2005). Acculturation, parent–child acculturation differential, and chronic disease risk factors in a Mexican-American population. Journal of Immigrant Health, 7(1), 1–9.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ely, D. M., & Driscoll, A. K. (2021). Infant mortality in the United States, 2019: Data from the period linked birth/infant death file. National Vital Statistics Reports: FRom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, 70(14), 1–18.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Flores, L. E., Frontera, W. R., Andrasik, M. P., Del Rio, C., Mondríguez-González, A., Price, S. A., Krantz, E. M., Pergam, S. A., & Silver, J. K. (2021). Assessment of the inclusion of racial/ethnic minority, female, and older individuals in vaccine clinical trials. JAMA Network Open., 4(2), e2037640–e2037640.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fox, M., Entringer, S., Buss, C., DeHaene, J., & Wadhwa, P. D. (2015). Intergenerational transmission of the effects of acculturation on health in Hispanic Americans: A fetal programming perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 105(S3), S409–S423.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fry, R., & Taylor, P. (2013). Hispanic high school graduates pass Whites in rate of college enrollment. Pew Research Center.

    Google Scholar 

  • Galan, J., Mydam, J., & Collins, J. W. (2022). Infant mortality rates among us-born and foreign-born Latinx women: The effect of black race. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 26(3), 511–516.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Geller, S. E., Koch, A. R., Roesch, P., Filut, A., Hallgren, E., & Carnes, M. (2018). The more things change, the more they stay the same: A study to evaluate compliance with inclusion and assessment of women and minorities in randomized controlled trials. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 93(4), 630.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gibson-Davis, C. M., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Couples’ immigration status and ethnicity as determinants of breastfeeding. American Journal of Public Health, 96(4), 641–646.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Giscombé, C. L., & Lobel, M. (2005). Explaining disproportionately high rates of adverse birth outcomes among African Americans: The impact of stress, racism, and related factors in pregnancy. Psychological Bulletin, 131(5), 662.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Gonzalez-Barrera A. About 6 million U.S. adults identify as Afro-Latino. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/02/about-6-million-u-s-adults-identify-as-afro-latino/. Published 2022. Accessed June 10, 2022.

  • Goodman, M. S., Plepys, C. M., Bather, J. R., Kelliher, R. M., & Healton, C. G. (2020). Racial/ethnic diversity in academic public health: 20-year update. Public Health Reports., 135(1), 74–81.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gutiérrez, E. R., & Fuentes, L. (2009). Population control by sterilization the cases of Puerto Rican and Mexican-Origin women in the United States. Latino (a) Research Review, 7(3), 85–100.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hardy, L. J., Getrich, C. M., Quezada, J. C., Guay, A., Michalowski, R. J., & Henley, E. (2012). A call for further research on the impact of state-level immigration policies on public health. American Journal of Public Health, 102(7), 1250–1253.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Harley, K., Stamm, N. L., & Eskenazi, B. (2007). The effect of time in the US on the duration of breastfeeding in women of Mexican descent. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 11(2), 119–125.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Healh NIo. Number of Principal Investigators Funded by the National Institutes of Health By Grant Mechanism and Gender: Fiscal Years 2016–2020. https://report.nih.gov/sites/report/files/docs/NIH_Principal_Investigators_by_Gender_Race_Ethnicity_and_Disability_2016-2020_02_23_2021_PDF.pdf. Published 2021. Accessed June 6, 2021.

  • Hoggatt, K. J., Flores, M., Solorio, R., Wilhelm, M., & Ritz, B. (2012). The, “Latina epidemiologic paradox” revisited: The role of birthplace and acculturation in predicting infant low birth weight for Latinas in Los Angeles, CA. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 14(5), 875–884.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Hohl, S., Thompson, B., Escareño, M., & Duggan, C. (2016). Cultural norms in conflict: Breastfeeding among Hispanic immigrants in rural Washington state. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 20(7), 1549–1557.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Hoyert DL. Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2020. 2022.

  • Hunt, L. M., Schneider, S., & Comer, B. (2004). Should, “acculturation” be a variable in health research? A critical review of research on US Hispanics. Social Science & Medicine, 59(5), 973–986.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Isasi, C. R., Ayala, G. X., Sotres-Alvarez, D., Madanat, H., Penedo, F., Loria, C. M., Elder, J. P., Daviglus, M. L., Barnhart, J., Siega-Riz, A. M., & Horn, L. (2015). Is acculturation related to obesity in Hispanic/Latino adults? Results from the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos. Journal of Obesity., 29, 2015.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jiménez, T. R., Fields, C. D., & Schachter, A. (2015). How ethnoraciality matters: Looking inside ethnoracial “groups.” Social Currents, 2(2), 107–115.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kimbro, R. T., Lynch, S. M., & McLanahan, S. (2008). The influence of acculturation on breastfeeding initiation and duration for Mexican-Americans. Population Research and Policy Review, 27(2), 183–199.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Krogstad JM, Noe-Bustamante L. Key facts about US Latinos for national hispanic heritage month. Pew Research Center. Published 2021. Accessed.

  • Lamberty, G., & Coll, C. T. G. (1994). Puerto Rican women and children: Issues in health, growth, and development. Springer.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Lara, M., Gamboa, C., Kahramanian, M. I., Morales, L. S., & Hayes Bautista, D. E. (2005). Acculturation and Latino health in the United States: A review of the literature and its sociopolitical context. Annual Review of Public Health, 26, 367–397.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • LaVange, L. M., Kalsbeek, W. D., Sorlie, P. D., Avilés-Santa, L. M., Kaplan, R. C., Barnhart, J., Liu, K., Giachello, A., Lee, D. J., Ryan, J., & Criqui, M. H. (2010). Sample design and cohort selection in the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos. Annals of Epidemiology, 20(8), 642–649.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Liu, S. R., & Glynn, L. M. (2021). The contribution of racism-related stress and adversity to disparities in birth outcomes: Evidence and research recommendations. F&S Reports, 3(2), 5–13.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • López, L., Peralta, C. A., Lee, A., Al Hazzouri, A. Z., & Haan, M. N. (2014). Impact of acculturation on cardiovascular risk factors among elderly Mexican Americans. Annals of Epidemiology, 24(10), 714–719.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • López, L., Swett, K., Rodriguez, F., Kizer, J. R., Penedo, F., Gallo, L., Allison, M., Arguelles, W., Gonzalez, F., Kaplan, R. C., & Rodriguez, C. J. (2019). Association of acculturation with cardiac structure and function among Hispanics/Latinos: a cross-sectional analysis of the echocardiographic study of Latinos. British Medical Journal Open, 9(11), e028729.

    Google Scholar 

  • Loree, J. M., Anand, S., Dasari, A., Unger, J. M., Gothwal, A., Ellis, L. M., Varadhachary, G., Kopetz, S., Overman, M. J., & Raghav, K. (2019). Disparity of race reporting and representation in clinical trials leading to cancer drug approvals from 2008 to 2018. JAMA Oncology, 5(10), e191870–e191870.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Luna, N., & Revilla, A. T. (2013). Understanding Latina/o school pushout: Experiences of students who left school before graduating. Journal of Latinos and Education, 12(1), 22–37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Martinez, M. J., Huang, S., Estrada, Y., Sutton, M. Y., & Prado, G. (2017). The relationship between acculturation, ecodevelopment, and substance use among Hispanic adolescents. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 37(7), 948–974.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mireles-Rios, R., Rios, V. M., & Reyes, A. (2020). Pushed out for missing school: The role of social disparities and school truancy in dropping out. Education Sciences, 10(4), 108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Montoya-Williams, D., Williamson, V. G., Cardel, M., Fuentes-Afflick, E., Maldonado-Molina, M., & Thompson, L. (2021). The Hispanic/Latinx perinatal paradox in the United States: A scoping review and recommendations to guide future research. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 23(5), 1078–1091.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mydam, J., David, R. J., Rankin, K. M., & Collins, J. W. (2019). Low birth weight among infants born to Black Latina women in the United States. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 23(4), 538–546.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Novak, N. L., Geronimus, A. T., & Martinez-Cardoso, A. M. (2017). Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(3), 839–849.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Novak, N. L., Lira, N., O’Connor, K. E., Harlow, S. D., Kardia, S. L., & Stern, A. M. (2018). Disproportionate sterilization of Latinos under California’s eugenic sterilization program, 1920–1945. American Journal of Public Health, 108(5), 611–613.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Odedina, F. T., & Stern, M. C. (2021). Role of funders in addressing the continued lack of diversity in science and medicine. Nature Medicine., 27(11), 1859–1861.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Oh, S. S., Galanter, J., Thakur, N., Pino-Yanes, M., Barcelo, N. E., White, M. J., de Bruin, D. M., Greenblatt, R. M., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Wu, A. H., & Borrell, L. N. (2015). Diversity in clinical and biomedical research: A promise yet to be fulfilled. PLoS Medicine, 12(12), e1001918.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Osterman MH, BE; Martin, JA; Driscoll, AK; Valenzuela, CP. Births: Final Data for 2020. US Department of Health and Human Services;2022.

  • Perreira, K. M., & Allen, C. D. (2021). The health of Hispanic children from birth to emerging adulthood. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 696(1), 200–222.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quintana C. (2020). More Latino students than ever are trying to get their degree, but it’s fraught and costly. USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/01/06/more-hispanic-students-than-ever-go-college-but-cost-high/2520646001/. Accessed April 5 2023.

  • Ramirez-Valles, J., Neubauer, L. C., & Zambrana, R. E. (2022). Inequity Within: A Call for Inclusion of Latina/o/x Scholars in Faculty and Leadership Ranks in Schools and Programs of Public Health. Public Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354922107707

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Review NCfS. CSR Data & Evaluations. https://public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Evaluations#SRO_demographics. Published 2022. Accessed November 21, 2022.

  • Rice, W. S., Goldfarb, S. S., Brisendine, A. E., Burrows, S., & Wingate, M. S. (2017). Disparities in infant mortality by race among Hispanic and non-Hispanic infants. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(7), 1581–1588.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Rogers, C. J., Forster, M., Valente, T. W., & Unger, J. B. (2022). Associations between network-level acculturation, individual-level acculturation, and substance use among Hispanic adolescents. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 21(2), 439–456.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rubin, E. (2021). Striving for diversity in research studies. The New England Journal of Medicine, 385, 1429–1430.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sanchez-Vaznaugh, E. V., Braveman, P. A., Egerter, S., Marchi, K. S., Heck, K., & Curtis, M. (2016). Latina birth outcomes in California: Not so paradoxical. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 20(9), 1849–1860.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Sardar, M. R., Badri, M., Prince, C. T., Seltzer, J., & Kowey, P. R. (2014). Underrepresentation of women, elderly patients, and racial minorities in the randomized trials used for cardiovascular guidelines. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(11), 1868–1870.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schneider, B., Martinez, S., & Owens, A. (2006). Barriers to educational opportunities for Hispanics in the United States. Hispanics and the Future of America, 23, 179–227.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schwartz, S. J., Unger, J. B., Zamboanga, B. L., & Szapocznik, J. (2010). Rethinking the concept of acculturation: Implications for theory and research. American Psychologist, 65(4), 237.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sharma, A., & Palaniappan, L. (2021). Improving diversity in medical research. Nature Reviews Disease Primers., 7(1), 1–2.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Statistics. NCfE. Status Dropout Rates. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/coj. Published 2020. Accessed November 21, 2022.

  • Statistics; NCfE. Undergraduate Enrollment. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cha. Published 2022. Accessed June 1, 2022.

  • Tamir C. The Growing Diversity of Black America. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/03/25/the-growing-diversity-of-black-america/. Published 2021. Accessed June 10, 2022.

  • Thomas, S. P. (2022). Street-race in reproductive health: a qualitative study of the pregnancy and birthing experiences among black and Afro-Latina Women in South Florida. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 26(4), 700–707.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Torche, F., & Sirois, C. (2019). Restrictive immigration law and birth outcomes of immigrant women. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(1), 24–33.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Torres, L. (2010). Predicting levels of Latino depression: Acculturation, acculturative stress, and coping. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(2), 256.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Turner, K., Wildsmith, E., Guzman, L., & Alvira-Hammond, M. (2016). The changing geography of Hispanic children and families. National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families, 6, 1–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Viruell-Fuentes, E. A., Miranda, P. Y., & Abdulrahim, S. (2012). More than culture: Structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health. Social Science & Medicine., 75(12), 2099–2106.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Funding

This work was supported by an award to Cynthia Lebron by the National Heart Lungs and Blood Institute (K01 HL160915-01A1) and by the Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO; 3U54MD002266-15S2).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies, 5030 Brunson Avenue, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA

    Cynthia N. Lebron, Alexa Parra & Victoria Behar-Zusman

  2. Biden School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    Mary Mitsdarffer

  3. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Jennifer V. Chavez

Authors
  1. Cynthia N. Lebron
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mary Mitsdarffer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Alexa Parra
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Jennifer V. Chavez
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Victoria Behar-Zusman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

CL and MM conceptualized the manuscript and all authors contributed to literature reviews, writing, and editing.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Cynthia N. Lebron.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

No conflicts of interest to disclose.

Ethical Approval

As this is a commentary on available literature, ethics approval were not sought.

Consent to Participate

Not applicable.

Consent for Publication

Not applicable.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Lebron, C.N., Mitsdarffer, M., Parra, A. et al. Latinas and Maternal and Child Health: Research, Policy, and Representation. Matern Child Health J (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03662-z

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03662-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation