Susan C Scrimshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 117111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan C Scrimshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Scrimshaw |
| SIGNATURE | SCRIMSHAW S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sage Colleges |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1584-149X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Sage Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Medicalisation has been one of the major conceptual and empirical interests in medical sociology since the late 1960s.A widely accepted definition is that medicalisation is the process whereby social problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions.During its long history, the concept of medicalisation has passed through several phases of thought, and its influence on the concepts and ideas of medicine and health reflects broader cha…
Sage Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Ethnography, Rapid‐Assessment
Rapid ethnographic or rapid‐assessment procedures (RAP) focus ethnographic methods on answering specific practical questions about problems and service programs to provide solutions in an abbreviated period of time compared with the traditional year of fieldwork. This applied anthropology action research method has been widely used globally for community participatory research and for application to health programs, development projects, agricult…
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo: Transformando la educación para fortalecer los sistemas de salud en un mundo interdependiente
Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo: Transformando la educación para fortalecer los sistemas de salud en un mundo interdependiente
Health professionals for a new century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
Rapid Assessment Procedures in Environmental Sanitation Research: A Case Study from the Northern Border of Mexico
The effectiveness of early childhood development programs
Culturally competent healthcare systems
Medical Sociologies: Diversity and Integration
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Fif th Edition edited by Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen M. Fremont. New Jersey Prentice Hall 2000. 438 pp. $61.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-13-014456-8. There has always been good selection of readers available for those teaching medical sociology courses due to the diverse nature of the field. It is difficult for one author to capture adequately the theoretical and empirical richness inherent to medical sociology or t…
Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Introduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C Scrimshaw PART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S Turner Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories Social Theorizing about Health and Illness - David Armstrong Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E Morrisey Towards a Multilevel…
The Handbook of Social Sciences in Health and Medicine
Mediators of ethnic-associated differences in infant birth weight
Prenatal health behaviors and psychosocial risk factors in pregnant women of Mexican origin: The role of acculturation
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between acculturation of Mexican-origin women and factors in low birthweight and preterm delivery. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 911 Mexican-origin respondents in Los Angeles prenatal care clinics. Infant outcome data were retrieved from delivery records. RESULTS: Mexican-American women had generally more undesirable prenatal behaviors and risk factors than Mexican-immigrant women. Althoug…
Social support in pregnancy: Psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression
Ethnic differences in the substance use patterns of low-income pregnant women
Zambrana, Ruth E. PhD; Hernandez, Marta MD; Dunkel-Schetter, Christine PhD; Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. PhD Author Information
Coitus‐dependent contraceptives: Factors associated with effective use
The factors associated with adequate contraceptive use among university women relying on coitus‐dependent contraceptives were examined. Sixty‐nine sexually active women between the ages of 18 and 34 completed daily logs of their sexual activity, contraceptive behavior and basal body temperature over three menstrual cycles. Contraceptive use was analyzed by menstrual cycle phase and results indicated that frequency of use was significantly higher …
Anthropological involvement in the Central American diarrheal disease control project
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
Sex differences in attitudes towards newborn infants among women of Mexican origin
This paper analyzes a data set on women of Mexican origin delivering in Los Angeles hospitals, in order to examine whether Mexican women's attitudes toward their 1st-born infants are influenced by the sex of the child, either alone or in combination with other factors, such as the difficulty of labor and delivery or the woman's social support system. The authors' hypothesize that the mother's attitude toward the 1st child will be determined prima…
Recognizing active labor
Women and the Pill: From Panacea to Catalyst
Part three: Anthropologists in schools of public health
Infant Mortality and Behavior in the Regulation of Family Size
Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Introduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C Scrimshaw PART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S Turner Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories Social Theorizing about Health and Illness - David Armstrong Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E Morrisey Towards a Multilevel…
Infant Mortality and Behavior in the Regulation of Family Size
Social support in pregnancy: Psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression
Prenatal health behaviors and psychosocial risk factors in pregnant women of Mexican origin: The role of acculturation
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between acculturation of Mexican-origin women and factors in low birthweight and preterm delivery. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 911 Mexican-origin respondents in Los Angeles prenatal care clinics. Infant outcome data were retrieved from delivery records. RESULTS: Mexican-American women had generally more undesirable prenatal behaviors and risk factors than Mexican-immigrant women. Althoug…
Anthropological involvement in the Central American diarrheal disease control project
Child survival and intervals between pregnancies in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Intervals between births to 1934 women from poor areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, were subjected to analysis to determine what effect on survival chances of their children, if any, was exerted by differences in these intervals. The analysis showed that risks of miscarriage and stillbirth were increased when the interval between last termination of pregnancy and conception was either very short or very long. Post-neo-natal mortality was strongly influ…
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
Effects of unstable sexual unions on fertility in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Blake hypothesized in 1955 that the instability of reproductive unions may affect fertility in 2 opposite ways - it may reduce the rate of reproduction by decreasing the total time of exposure to pregnancy and it may increase the rate of reproduction because there is often a desire to have children born of each new union or simply because coitus is more frequent at the start of each new union. Independent measurements of the effects on fertility …
Part two: Stages in women's lives and reproductive decision-making in Latin America
Recognizing active labor
Mediators of ethnic-associated differences in infant birth weight
Coitus‐dependent contraceptives: Factors associated with effective use
The factors associated with adequate contraceptive use among university women relying on coitus‐dependent contraceptives were examined. Sixty‐nine sexually active women between the ages of 18 and 34 completed daily logs of their sexual activity, contraceptive behavior and basal body temperature over three menstrual cycles. Contraceptive use was analyzed by menstrual cycle phase and results indicated that frequency of use was significantly higher …
Sex differences in attitudes towards newborn infants among women of Mexican origin
This paper analyzes a data set on women of Mexican origin delivering in Los Angeles hospitals, in order to examine whether Mexican women's attitudes toward their 1st-born infants are influenced by the sex of the child, either alone or in combination with other factors, such as the difficulty of labor and delivery or the woman's social support system. The authors' hypothesize that the mother's attitude toward the 1st child will be determined prima…
Effects of unstable sexual unions on fertility in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Blake hypothesized in 1955 that the instability of reproductive unions may affect fertility in 2 opposite ways - it may reduce the rate of reproduction by decreasing the total time of exposure to pregnancy and it may increase the rate of reproduction because there is often a desire to have children born of each new union or simply because coitus is more frequent at the start of each new union. Independent measurements of the effects on fertility …
Child survival and intervals between pregnancies in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Intervals between births to 1934 women from poor areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, were subjected to analysis to determine what effect on survival chances of their children, if any, was exerted by differences in these intervals. The analysis showed that risks of miscarriage and stillbirth were increased when the interval between last termination of pregnancy and conception was either very short or very long. Post-neo-natal mortality was strongly influ…
Culture and Contraceptives
Cultural Values and Behaviors Related to Population Change
Infant Mortality and Behavior in the Regulation of Family Size
Part two: Stages in women's lives and reproductive decision-making in Latin America
Part three: Anthropologists in schools of public health
Women and the Pill: From Panacea to Catalyst
Recognizing active labor
Sex differences in attitudes towards newborn infants among women of Mexican origin
This paper analyzes a data set on women of Mexican origin delivering in Los Angeles hospitals, in order to examine whether Mexican women's attitudes toward their 1st-born infants are influenced by the sex of the child, either alone or in combination with other factors, such as the difficulty of labor and delivery or the woman's social support system. The authors' hypothesize that the mother's attitude toward the 1st child will be determined prima…
Factors affecting breastfeeding among women of Mexican origin or descent in Los Angeles
Data on breastfeeding intentions and behavior were collected in prenatal and postpartum interviews as part of a study on first birth among 518 women of Mexican origin or descent in two Los Angeles hospitals. The prenatal intentions of 82 per cent of the women to breastfeed were maintained postpartum in one hospital but dropped sharply in the other. A greater number of hours a day with the baby in the hospital and earlier initiation of breastfeedi…
Coitus‐dependent contraceptives: Factors associated with effective use
The factors associated with adequate contraceptive use among university women relying on coitus‐dependent contraceptives were examined. Sixty‐nine sexually active women between the ages of 18 and 34 completed daily logs of their sexual activity, contraceptive behavior and basal body temperature over three menstrual cycles. Contraceptive use was analyzed by menstrual cycle phase and results indicated that frequency of use was significantly higher …
Anthropological involvement in the Central American diarrheal disease control project
Ethnic differences in the substance use patterns of low-income pregnant women
Zambrana, Ruth E. PhD; Hernandez, Marta MD; Dunkel-Schetter, Christine PhD; Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. PhD Author Information
Social support in pregnancy: Psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression
Prenatal health behaviors and psychosocial risk factors in pregnant women of Mexican origin: The role of acculturation
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the association between acculturation of Mexican-origin women and factors in low birthweight and preterm delivery. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 911 Mexican-origin respondents in Los Angeles prenatal care clinics. Infant outcome data were retrieved from delivery records. RESULTS: Mexican-American women had generally more undesirable prenatal behaviors and risk factors than Mexican-immigrant women. Althoug…
Mediators of ethnic-associated differences in infant birth weight
Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Introduction - Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C Scrimshaw PART ONE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness - Bryan S Turner Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories Social Theorizing about Health and Illness - David Armstrong Classification and Process in Sociomedical Understanding - Robert A Rubinstein, Susan C Scrimshaw and Suzanne E Morrisey Towards a Multilevel…
The Handbook of Social Sciences in Health and Medicine
Medical Sociologies: Diversity and Integration
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Fif th Edition edited by Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen M. Fremont. New Jersey Prentice Hall 2000. 438 pp. $61.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-13-014456-8. There has always been good selection of readers available for those teaching medical sociology courses due to the diverse nature of the field. It is difficult for one author to capture adequately the theoretical and empirical richness inherent to medical sociology or t…
The effectiveness of early childhood development programs
Culturally competent healthcare systems
Rapid Assessment Procedures in Environmental Sanitation Research: A Case Study from the Northern Border of Mexico
Health professionals for a new century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo: Transformando la educación para fortalecer los sistemas de salud en un mundo interdependiente
Medicine (20 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Demography (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Pregnancy (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Demography (5 works)