Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-2009: Policies for creating quality jobs

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 1998

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 2004

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 2007

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 2011

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 1999-2000

Includes bibliography

Social Panorama of Latin America 1996

Incluye Bibliografía

Social Panorama of Latin America 1995

Incluye Bibliografía

Sociodemographic characteristics as predictors of successful smoking cessation among a group of Hispanic Spanish speaking smokers

Few studies have examined predictors of smoking abstinence among Hispanic groups. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relations of sociodemographic characteristics and smoking related factors with smoking abstinence among a group of Hispanic Spanish speaking smokers. This study utilized previously collected data from Hispanic Spanish-speaking smokers (N = 246) who participated in a study entitled Smoking Cessation Services for Hispanic Smokers in Texas. ^ The first study examined sociodemographic characteristics and smoking related mechanisms that predicted smoking abstinence among this group. Two of the characteristics were related to smoking abstinence, marital status and acculturation level. Being unmarried increased the likelihood of being abstinent at the 12 week assessment (OR = 1.80). Those in the high acculturation group were twice as likely to be abstinent (OR = 2.24). Of the smoking related mechanisms, those with higher positive reinforcement expectancies were less likely to be abstinent (OR = .86), as were those with a higher level of affiliative attachment (OR = .86), a higher level of craving (OR = .78) and a higher tolerance to the effect of smoking (OR = .74). The second study was to examine the relationship of objective measures of socioeconomic status (SES) (income, education, or employment) with smoking abstinence among this group. This study also compared the relationship of a subjective measure of SES (Social Status Ladder) to smoking abstinence. None of the objective measures of SES were related to smoking abstinence at the 12 week assessment. The subjective measure of SES did predict smoking abstinence (OR = 1.9) indicting that those that rated themselves ≤4 on the SES scale were more likely to be abstinent. ^ Although this group was recruited using various methods across the state of Texas, the fact that they preferred to interact with the counselor in Spanish may limit the study findings. The results of this study highlight the need for research to examine specific subgroups of people and understand the special circumstances that influence their health behaviors. Furthering our knowledge of the relations between sociodemographic characteristics and smoking cessation could lead to interventions that reduce disparities in smoking cessation. ^

The Monroe doctrine and Hispanic America.

"Reprinted from the Hispanic American historical review, vol. IV, no. 4, November 1921."

The Boston opposition to the new law for the suppression of rum shops and grog shops, fully detected and plainly exposed : being an appeal to the country people of Massachusetts to protect themselves : in four parts ...

Attributed to Hildreth by L.S. Friedland. See his "Richard Hildreth's minor works", in Bibliographical Society of America. Papers, v. 40, no. 2, 1946.

Address to the people of the United States, and to the members of Congress in particular : on the civilization and Christian instruction of the aborigines of our country /

Signed: Elijah Coffin, Clerk.

Blue Eye : a story of the people of the plains /

Mode of access: Internet.

Living on the ground research: Steps towards white women researching in collaboration with indigenous people

De Ishtar discusses ways in which Whites could develop research epistemologies and methodologies which responded to and reflected those being developed by Indigenous researchers across Australia and around the world. She details her own explorations in developing a methodology which enabled her to work in collaboration with a group of Indigenous women elders from Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. She stresses that if collaborative research with Indigenous women is to be possible, White feminists must learn how to do research which is culturally unobtrusive, and that means taking responsibility for their own cultural practices, attitudes and values.