William Alvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 2838404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Alvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvarez |
| SIGNATURE | ALVAREZ W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Periferias urbanas en el Caribe colombiano. Transperiferismo, nuevos fascismos y marginalidad avanzada
IntroducciónEste texto analiza las móviles y dinámicas redefiniciones políticas geoimaginarias de distintos territorios periféricos (no por la posición en la cartografía) en ciudades del Caribe colombiano y Sur América, con especial énfasis en dos urbes caribeñas: Barranquilla y Cartagena de Indias. En el caso de la primera se interpretan las dinámicas de subsistencia de un barrio de invasión de migrantes venezolanos y retornados colombianos en e…
"Fumando pasta base de cocaina en "la zona
El propósito principal de este ensayo, es el de abordar las dinámicas de consumo de drogas en un espacio concurrido y multicultural de la ciudad de Quito, este espacio se conoce como La Zona, un lugar donde el consumo de sustancias legales e ilegales es visible y reconocible a primera vista. Por medio del relato de vida de una mujer adicta a la pasta base de cocaína, y una descripción etnográfica de su cotidianidad, este trabajo explora: las prác…
Children of migrant farm work families are at high risk for maltreatment
Utilizing a crosstabulation between data collected by the Migrant Student Records Transfer System and the New York State Central Register, it was determined that 298 of the 7,408 migrant children, age 18 years or younger, censused in 1982 were on file as having been maltreated in 1982. This rate, 40.2 per 1,000, is substantially higher than the rate found for upstate New York children (5.5). Maltreatment rates also varied by migrant status and ho…
News of Risk for Early Heart Disease as a Stressful Event
Modern prevention includes efforts to reduce the frequency of coronary heart disease by screening populations for certain risk factors, and then advising persons high in risk on how to alter their vulnerability. But what is the effect of telling persons they are at increased risk for such threatening events as heart attacks? Without such information they may not be motivated to change such behavior as cigarette smoking or to comply with blood pre…
Impact of Event Scale
Clinical, field, and experimental studies of response to potentially stressful life events give concordant findings: there is a general human tendency to undergo episodes of intrusive thinking and periods of avoidance. A scale of current subjective distress, related to a specific event, was based on a list of items composed of commonly reported experiences of intrusion and avoidance. Responses of 66 persons admitted to an outpatient clinic for th…
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Impact of Event Scale
Clinical, field, and experimental studies of response to potentially stressful life events give concordant findings: there is a general human tendency to undergo episodes of intrusive thinking and periods of avoidance. A scale of current subjective distress, related to a specific event, was based on a list of items composed of commonly reported experiences of intrusion and avoidance. Responses of 66 persons admitted to an outpatient clinic for th…
News of Risk for Early Heart Disease as a Stressful Event
Modern prevention includes efforts to reduce the frequency of coronary heart disease by screening populations for certain risk factors, and then advising persons high in risk on how to alter their vulnerability. But what is the effect of telling persons they are at increased risk for such threatening events as heart attacks? Without such information they may not be motivated to change such behavior as cigarette smoking or to comply with blood pre…
Children of migrant farm work families are at high risk for maltreatment
Utilizing a crosstabulation between data collected by the Migrant Student Records Transfer System and the New York State Central Register, it was determined that 298 of the 7,408 migrant children, age 18 years or younger, censused in 1982 were on file as having been maltreated in 1982. This rate, 40.2 per 1,000, is substantially higher than the rate found for upstate New York children (5.5). Maltreatment rates also varied by migrant status and ho…
"Fumando pasta base de cocaina en "la zona
El propósito principal de este ensayo, es el de abordar las dinámicas de consumo de drogas en un espacio concurrido y multicultural de la ciudad de Quito, este espacio se conoce como La Zona, un lugar donde el consumo de sustancias legales e ilegales es visible y reconocible a primera vista. Por medio del relato de vida de una mujer adicta a la pasta base de cocaína, y una descripción etnográfica de su cotidianidad, este trabajo explora: las prác…
Periferias urbanas en el Caribe colombiano. Transperiferismo, nuevos fascismos y marginalidad avanzada
IntroducciónEste texto analiza las móviles y dinámicas redefiniciones políticas geoimaginarias de distintos territorios periféricos (no por la posición en la cartografía) en ciudades del Caribe colombiano y Sur América, con especial énfasis en dos urbes caribeñas: Barranquilla y Cartagena de Indias. En el caso de la primera se interpretan las dinámicas de subsistencia de un barrio de invasión de migrantes venezolanos y retornados colombianos en e…
Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Distress (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Anxiety (1 works) · Avoidance coping (1 works) · Blood pressure (1 works)