Ex-Addict Streetworkers in a Mexican-American Community

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
John G. Munns ◽  
Gilbert Geis ◽  
Bruce Bullington
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
First Year ◽  
Narcotic Addiction ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
Employment Program ◽  
Field Workers ◽  
Drug Free ◽  
Cation Center

The Boyle Heights Project, an attempt to reduce narcotic addiction in a Mexican-American area by employing thirty former addicts as field workers, produced the following results in its first year: a higher rate of return to addiction among the field workers than prediction tables might have anticipated, with none' of the women workers able to remain drug-free; a controversial employment program that blatantly manipulates employers in the service of clients; a well-functioning detoxifi cation center; and an emerging role as an agency bridging the gap between the addict and the forces of society before whom he feels—and often is—helpless.

A Lighter Shade of Brown? Racial Formation and Gentrification in Latino Los Angeles

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Huante
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Boyle Heights

Abstract Conventional gentrification literature has meaningfully demonstrated how economic inequality is perpetuated in urban settings, but there has been a limited understanding of how racial inequality is maintained. Drawing from participant observation, interviews, and digital ethnography in the barrio of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles that were collected over five years, this study examines how gentrification functions as a racial project and supports new forms of racialization to maintain uneven development along racial lines. Examining the ways that racial formation processes unfurl at the local scale expands conventional understanding of racial formation theory and practice while, simultaneously, illustrating the centrality of place in race-making. This study finds new race and class formations are developed by casting the barrio itself and significant portions of the Mexican American population as “honorary white.” Despite colorblind and post-racial ideologies espoused in majority-minority cities like Los Angeles, this landscape fostered emerging racial formations alongside gentrification processes which have increased racial, political, and economic inequality.

The Expansion Plan of TeleDoc

2009 ◽  
pp. 393-405
Author(s):  
S.C. Lenny Koh ◽  
Stuart Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
First Year ◽  
Service Availability ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Expansion Plan ◽  
Field Workers ◽  
Positive Results

The TeleDoc project of Jivan Institute has combined mobile commerce and the ancient concepts of Ayurveda for treatment of rural residents of India for whom health services are still available only in dreams. Using GPRS network and J2ME applications on Nokia 6800 mobile phones, TeleDoc field workers are reaching the remotest villages of India with the promise of possible Ayurvedic treatments for subsequent illnesses. With cash-positive results in the first year of operations, TeleDoc wants to expand in a big-bang way by covering 10,000 villages in 2006. They also want to improve the service quality by using real-time video streaming. But many members of the TeleDoc technical team are skeptical whether the existing GPRS-based solution will serve the purpose or not. There are different priorities in the team (e.g., cost-effectiveness, quality of service, availability, immediacy, cost-ofchange, etc.). The IT consultant has many options, but getting the priorities sorted out is the daunting task at hand.

What’s Good for Boyle Heights Has Been Good at the Los Angeles Coliseum

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Andre Guridy
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
City Council ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good For ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Urban Institution ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

George Sánchez’s 2004 article “What’s Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews” brings to light the fascinating history of the cultural and political dimensions of what he calls “radical interracialism” in the mid-twentieth century. As I delve more deeply into the racial, ethnic, and recreational history of Los Angeles, I find myself strongly indebted to the work of Sánchez and his cohorts of ethnic studies scholars working on Los Angeles. Sánchez’s research on the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights during the 1940s and ’50s has uncovered what Luis Alvarez calls a “counter-history of Los Angeles”: a narrative of the city’s and county’s history that disrupts the dominant understandings of decentralization, privatization, and apartheid-like segregation. To Sánchez, Boyle Heights was a “particular site of ethnic cooperation in the midst of racial segregation and political conservatism.” Recalling the neighborhood’s history during this period, he writes, “better situates our own search for neighborhoods of diversity that truly worked together in the past and our hope of a multiracial Los Angeles that can work together in the future.” Following his lead, I examine Sánchez’s formulation of “radical interracialism,” as articulated in his essays on Jewish cross-racial interaction in Boyle Heights and its political manifestation in the ascendance of Edward Roybal, the first Mexican American to serve in the Los Angeles City Council since the late nineteenth century. In these essays, Sánchez historicizes the making of cross-racial linkages on both cultural and political levels. Inspired by his research, I take up his challenge by embarking on my own search for radical interracialism in an unlikely yet ubiquitous urban institution—a sports stadium, whose hidden history of racial integration and public culture counters the social hierarchies inscribed in the neoliberal ballpark of the urban gentrifying present.

In RA, becoming seronegative over the first year of treatment does not translate to better chances of drug-free remission

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (12) ◽  
pp. 1836-1838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma C de Moel ◽  
Veerle F A M Derksen ◽  
Leendert A Trouw ◽  
Holger Bang ◽  
Yvonne P M Goekoop-Ruiterman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Drug Free

scholarly journals The Relation of Ultraviolet Radiation and Multiple Sclerosis in Newfoundland

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
JS Sloka ◽  
WEM Pryse-Phillips ◽  
M Stefanelli
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Ultraviolet B ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
First Year ◽  
Uvb Radiation ◽  
Ultraviolet Exposure ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
First Year Of Life

Background:It has been thought that the occurrence of multiple sclerosis (MS) could be associated with daily ultraviolet exposure. In this study we investigated the geospatial association between average daily ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiance and MS prevalence in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Canada.Methods:A complete list of patients diagnosed with MS in the province of NL was constructed. Places of habitation from birth to diagnosis were ascertained by mailout survey.Results:A 74% rate of return on the survey results was obtained. A plot of the average daily erythemal UV over the available five years (1998-2002) shows that the distribution of MS follow a north-south gradient. Average daily UVB measurements are lower in the higher latitudes. A statistically significant negative correlation of MS incidence with erythemal UVB was found that is stronger than the correlation using latitude. This correlation appears to be strongest in the first year of life and declines when subsequent years are examined up to age ten. No significant correlation was found for the subjects' locale of habitation at the time of their first MS attack.Conclusions:This study suggests that UVB radiation may contribute to the pathogenesis of MS.

Patagial Tags - Do Benefits Outweigh Risks to the Animal

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 565 ◽  
Author(s):  
DA Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Return Rate ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
First Year ◽  
Breeding Area ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Recent Method

The use of patagial tags to individually mark animals, particularly birds, is a recent method of identification. Disadvantages to the animal may outweigh any benefits to the researcher. I compare the rate of return to the breeding area of leg-banded and patagial tagged Carnaby's cockatoos, Calyptorhynchus funereus latirostris. Adult females which were patagial tagged had a first year rate of return of 59% (N= 172) compared with 100% (N= 12) for females with leg bands. Immature females which were patagial tagged before fledging had a return rate to breed in the study area (4 years later) of 1.3% (N= 150) compared with 12.7% (N=71) for leg-banded individuals. The data used in these comparisons were not collected in the same years but they suggest that patagial tags may increase mortality; in the case of Carnaby's cockatoo predation is the most likely cause. This possible increased mortality indicates that data gathered from resighting of patagial-tagged individuals should not be used in life tables and calculations of 'normal' survival rates until such effects can be discounted. A strong case for the use of patagial tags should be made before they are used on rare, vulnerable or endangered species.

scholarly journals A cross-sectional study on the nutritional status and morbidity profile of tribal and non-tribal female brick-field workers of Paschim Medinipur district

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sujata Maiti Choudhury ◽  
Prasan Sabud ◽  
Pralay Maity ◽  
Madhubanti Bepari ◽  
Ananya Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Randomized Sampling ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Field Workers

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the socioeconomic, anthropometric status and health morbidity profile of tribal and non tribal female brick-field workers of Paschim Medinipur district. Study design: Assessment of socioeconomic, health and nutritional parameters were done using 300 tribal & non tribal brick-field female workers at the age group of 18-30 years after randomized sampling. Place and duration of study: The study was done in 30 brick-fields located in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal in the month of November and December, 2013 for a period of 60 days. Methodology: Through oral questionnaire methods, socioeconomic studies, health morbidity profile and dietary assessments were performed. Anthropometric parameters were measured by the conventional anthropometric methods.Results: From the study it was observed that most of the women workers were illiterate. Female workers of non tribal and tribal groups engaged in this industry were living below the poverty line and the tribal workers showed poor economic status than the non-tribal women workers. The female workers showed significant decrease in height, weight and body mass index, compared to the Indian national standard values. Mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) and waist-hip ratio (WHR) was also significantly lower to the Indian national standard in both age groups of female workers. The intake of energy, protein, carbohydrate carotene, riboflavin, dietary fiber, calcium and iron were significantly lower compared to the standard ICMR RDA. Conclusion: The female workers engaged in brick manufacturing works are mostly illiterate, economically backward, which make them vulnerable to health insecurity. Malnutrition among tribal & non tribal female workers is a problem that has perhaps been under-recognized, and should now take greater priority.International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, Vol 4 No 2 (2014) 51 – 57

Why Was Infant Mortality So High in Eastern England in the Mid Nineteenth Century?

2015 ◽  
pp. 48-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hinde ◽  
Victoria Fairhurst
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Of Life

This paper re-examines the high rates of infant mortality observed in rural areas of eastern England in the early years of civil registration. Infant mortality rates in some rural registration districts in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk were higher than those in the mill towns of Lancashire. After describing the areas affected, this paper considers three potential explanations: environmental factors, poor-quality child care associated with the employment of women in agriculture, and the possibility that the high rates were the artefactual consequence of migrant women workers bringing their children to these areas. These explanations are then assessed using a range of evidence. In the absence of reliable cause of death data, recourse is had to three alternative approaches. The first involves the use of the exceptionally detailed tabulations of ages at death within the first year of life provided in the Registrar General's Annual Reports for the 1840s to assess whether the 'excess' infant deaths in rural areas of eastern England happened in the immediate post-natal period or later in the first year of life. Second, data on the seasonality of mortality in the 1840s are examined to see whether the zone of 'excess' infant mortality manifested a distinctive seasonal pattern. Finally, a regression approach is employed involving the addition of covariates to regression models. The conclusion is that no single factor was responsible for the 'excess' infant mortality, but a plausible account can be constructed which blends elements of all three of the potential explanations mentioned above with the specific historical context of these areas of eastern England.

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