Health inequality between immigrants and natives in Spain: the loss of the healthy immigrant effect in times of economic crisis

Background: The immigrant population living in Spain grew exponentially in the early 2000s but has been particularly affected by the economic crisis. This study aims to analyse health inequalities between immigrants born in middle- or low-income countries and natives in Spain, in 2006 and 2012, taking into account gender, year of arrival and socioeconomic exposures. Methods: Study of trends using two cross-sections, the 2006 and 2012 editions of the Spanish National Health Survey, including residents in Spain aged 15–64 years (20 810 natives and 2950 immigrants in 2006, 14 291 natives and 2448 immigrants in 2012). Fair/poor self-rated health, poor mental health (GHQ-12 > 2), chronic activity limitation and use of psychotropic drugs were compared between natives and immigrants who arrived in Spain before 2006, adjusting robust Poisson regression models for age and socioeconomic variables to obtain prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: Inequalities in poor self-rated health between immigrants and natives tend to increase among women (age-adjusted PR2006 = 1.39; 95% CI: 1.24–1.56, PR2012 = 1.56; 95% CI: 1.33–1.82). Among men, there is a new onset of inequalities in poor mental health (PR2006 = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.86–1.40, PR2012 = 1.34; 95% CI: 1.06–1.69) and an equalization of the previously lower use of psychotropic drugs (PR2006 = 0.22; 95% CI: 0.11–0.43, PR2012 = 1.20; 95% CI: 0.73–2.01). Conclusions: Between 2006 and 2012, immigrants who arrived in Spain before 2006 appeared to worsen their health status when compared with natives. The loss of the healthy immigrant effect in the context of a worse impact of the economic crisis on immigrants appears as potential explanation. Employment, social protection and re-universalization of healthcare would prevent further deterioration of immigrants’ health status.

Racism, Other Discriminations and Effects on Health

We study the probability of perceived racism/other forms of discrimination on immigrant and Spanish populations within different public spheres and show their effect on the health of immigrants using a cross-sectional design (ENS-06). Variables: perceived racism/other forms of discrimination (exposure), socio-demographic (explicative), health indicators (dependent). Frequencies, prevalences, and bivariate/multivariate analysis were conducted separately for men (M) and women (W). We estimated the health problems attributable to racism through the population attributable proportion (PAP). Immigrants perceived more racism than Spaniards in workplace (ORM = 48.1; 95 % CI 28.2–82.2), and receiving health care (ORW = 48.3; 95 % CI 24.7–94.4). Racism and other forms of discrimination were associated with poor mental health (ORM = 5.6; 95 % CI 3.9–8.2; ORW = 7.3; 95 % CI 4.1–13.0) and injury (ORW = 30.6; 95 % CI 13.6–68.7). It is attributed to perceived racism the 80.1 % of consumption of psychotropics (M), and to racism with other forms of discrimination the 52.3 % of cases of injury (W). Racism plays a role as a health determinant.

Mujeres Arquitectas y Urbanistas Iberoamericanas: VI BIAU LISBOA 08

Catálogo de la Muestra exhibida en la VI Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo celebrada en Lisboa en 2008 sobre el trabajo de las Mujeres Arquitectas y Urbanistas Iberoamericanas. Contiene textos de Carme Chacón, Ministra de Vivienda, y de Carolina Mojica Segovia, Coordinadora del 1º Concurso de Ideas en la Red "Mujeres Arquitectas y Urbanistas Iberoamericanas". Las propuestas se ordenan en dos ejes temáticos: Desarrollo profesional y Organización del espacio con perspectiva de género.

Desigualdades de género en la investigación en salud pública y epidemiología en España (2007-2014)

Objetivo: Analizar las desigualdades de género en investigación en salud pública y epidemiología en España, en el periodo 2007-2014. Método: Estudio descriptivo según sexo de posiciones de liderazgo del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER), especialmente en el área temática de epidemiología y salud pública (CIBERESP) en 2014; de sociedades científicas de salud pública (SESPAS) y epidemiología (SEE), 2009-2014; y de proyectos de investigación solicitados (13.320) y financiados (4699), e importes de convocatorias de Acción Estratégica en Salud (AES), 2007-2013. Resultados: Existe una clara infrarrepresentación de mujeres líderes y contratadas en investigación de excelencia en salud pública (CIBERESP), con predominio de los hombres en puestos de decisión. Aunque los proyectos de investigación de la Acción Estratégica en Salud (AES) liderados por mujeres han crecido ligeramente entre 2007 y 2013, entre los solicitados no alcanzan el 50%, con excepción de los de la Comisión de Salud Pública. La brecha de género es aún mayor en proyectos financiados. Los proyectos liderados por hombres tienen mayor probabilidad de obtener financiación, alcanzando el 29% en los de salud pública. Persiste una segregación horizontal de género en posiciones de reconocimiento científico en congresos de SESPAS y SEE. Conclusiones: La sobrerrepresentación de líderes masculinos en la investigación en salud pública en España debe entenderse como indicador y consecuencia del androcentrismo en las sociedades científicas y los grupos profesionales. Esta situación sexista pone en riesgo la existencia de productos y servicios innovadores desde la perspectiva de género que den respuestas a necesidades y demandas de toda la sociedad. Se necesitan más mujeres en investigación que tengan incorporada esta perspectiva.

Noves (i velles) didàctiques per a ensenyar llengua i literatura amb les TIC

Aquest article parteix de la hipòtesi inicial que les eines TIC presenten un gran potencial per millorar els processos d'ensenyament i aprenentatge de la llengua i la literatura, però que aquesta potencialitat (COLL: 2008) només es pot fer efectiva quan es fonamenta en una sòlida formació del professorat i quan l'ús de les TIC s'integra en metodologies actives que atorguen el protagonisme a l'estudiant i que se centren en l'acompanyament al llarg del procés, com els treballs per projectes o les seqüències didàctiques (SD) (CAMPS: 1994). Per desenvolupar aquest plantejament, primerament argumentaré la necessitat d'una formació dels docents que ha d'incloure tant la integració de les eines i dels recursos tecnològics que tenim al nostre abast, com els coneixements sobre els continguts que volem ensenyar i els coneixements pedagògics sobre com s'ensenya i com s'aprèn. I, tot seguit, em centraré en les característiques de les SD i en les possibilitats que obren per integrar els avenços que la recerca en didàctica de la llengua i de la literatura ha posat de manifest, i defensaré que són el millor marc per a un ús significatiu de les tecnologies de la informació i de la comunicació.

Dos lecturas de la vida de María: la Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena y la Vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria de Miquel Peres

La Vita Christi de Isabel de Villena y La vida de la sacratíssima verge Maria de Miquel Peres son dos obras devocionales surgidas en la Valencia de finales del siglo XV, y caracterizadas ambas por su temática mariana. Sin embargo, nunca se han analizado conjuntamente para ver posibles dependencias o divergencias. Este trabajo expondrá por primera vez cómo, pese a la proximidad temática, cada autor ofrece un texto diferente para abordar el protagonismo de la Virgen en los hechos evangélicos.

Records of the Geographical Society, ca. 1796

This small blue-covered paper notebook contains four leaves with the handwritten records of the Geographical Society, an undergraduate organization at Harvard in the late 1790s. The records consist of ten handwritten "Laws of the Geographical Society" and a short list of fines dispensed on October 7th. A list of six student surnames is written on a scrap of paper and attached with pins to the notebook's inside front cover. The surnames likely correspond to six members of the Harvard Class of 1798: John Abbot (1777-1854), Isaac Adams (d. 1807), Francis Brigham (d. November 14, 1796), Humphrey Devereux (1779-1867), Joseph Emerson (1777-1833), and Artemas Sawyer (d. 1826). The notebook is undated but was presumably kept in 1795 or 1796 around the time of Brigham's death on November 14, 1796. While Brigham's surname appears in the list of fines, it is crossed out on the inside front cover.

Account book of the executors of the Henry Flynt estate, 1760-1767

The volume contains acknowledgements of the disbursements of Harvard Tutor Henry Flynt's estate written in the hands of the respective beneficiaries. The entries begin on February 27, 1760 following Flynt's death on February 13, 1760, and continue through May 9, 1767. Each receipt includes the date, name of the executors, description of the property, beneficiary's name, and signature. The beneficiaries include the wife of Sol. Davy, Dorothy Jackson, Edmund Quincy, J. Henry Quincy, Esther and Stephen Richard (received by attorney Nicholas Boylston), Dorothy Skinner (also received for her by her husband Richard Skinner), John Wendell, Edmund Wendell, Katherine Wendell, and Oliver Wendell, as well as Harvard College (received by Harvard Treasurer Thomas Hubbard), and the Deacons of the First Church of Cambridge. The volume also includes a loose document titled "Account from Messrs Edmund & Josiah Quincy Settled & Ballanced March 31, 1749."

The Impact of Spain’s Economic and Political Crisis on the European Elections. EPIN Commentaries No. 17, 2 April 2014

Despite the emergence of a critical debate against the EU-imposed austerity measures both at the level of the political elites and on the street, this EPIN Commentary by two Spanish political scientists based in Barcelona finds no sign that the upcoming European elections will have a more European focus than any of the previous ones. While there is no anti-European discourse among the Spanish mainstream political parties, they report that public trust in the European institutions is plummeting and Spanish turnout in European elections has been dropping in the last few years. In the authors’ view, the main reason for this is the low level of awareness of the functioning of the European Parliament but some responsibility also lies with the Spanish political parties and the way they deal with the electoral campaign to mobilise the discontented voters, who consider unemployment and the economic situation as the two most important issues that the country is facing at the moment.

Instrucciones prácticas sobre la primera y segunda dentición de los niños y tratados de higiene dentaria : obra dedicada a los padres de familia /

Mode of access: Internet.

Synoptica relectio de nutritione /

Mode of access: Internet.

Studi di letteratura italiana,

"Composto di uno scritto inedito e di parecchi altri pubblicati prima in vari tempi, e poi in tutto o in parte rifatti."--Prefazione.

Œuvres de Gresset ...

Notice sur Gresset.--v. 1. Ver-Vert. Le carême in promptu. Le lutrin vivant. Épîtres. Odes. Églogues. Le siècle pastoral, idylle.--v. 2. Édouard III, tragédie. Sidnei, comedie. Le méchant, comédie. Pièces fugitives. Discours à l'Académie. Discours sur l'harmonie. Lettre sur la comédie. Lettre à M. *****. Réponse au discours de M. Suard.

Oeuvres de Massillon.

T.1. Avent. Carême. Petit Carême. Oraisons funèbres.--T.2. Mystères. Panégyriques. Conférences. Paraphrases sur les Psaumes. Pensées.

Le maitre d'hotel français : ... ouvrage contenant un traité des menus servis a Paris, a Saint-Pétersburg, a Londres et a Vienne /

Mode of access: Internet.