Nancy Romero‐daza
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Romero‐daza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero‐daza |
| SIGNATURE | DAZA N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Actionable recommendations in response to external pressures facing anthropology departments in the U.S
As anthropology departments face pressure from state legislation, university boards, and university administrators to justify their continued existence and/or make significant – and frequently drastic – changes, department leadership and anthropology faculty are strategizing how to bolster their programs, pedagogical approaches, and industry collaborations. In this article, we compile case studies from multiple, diverse anthropology programs and …
Impacts of Food and Water Insecurity on Human Health
Food insecurity (FI) and water insecurity (WI) refer to limited or uncertain access to safe and adequate food and water respectively, which affect millions of people globally. Traditionally, these insecurities have been approached separately in research, practice, and policy. However, there is growing evidence that WI and FI interact with each other through nutrition and disease pathways and pose significant threats to physical and psychosocial h…
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Food Prescription Program During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Food insecurity (FI), a longstanding issue in the United States, has been associated with poor diet quality and negative health outcomes, especially with diet-related chronic diseases (DRCDs). To address this issue, Food Prescription Programs (FPP, also known as Food as Medicine) provide at-risk populations with vouchers, or "prescriptions," to obtain fresh fruits and vegetables from local food banks, pantries, and vendors. This paper discusses t…
Reflections on Paul Farmer’s Contributions from Two Generations of Medical Anthropologists
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza, Deven Gray; Reflections on Paul Farmer's Contributions from Two Generations of Medical Anthropologists. Human Organization 1 June 2022; 81 (2): 99–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-81.2.99 Download…
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases
The Intersection of Problems, Policy, and Politics
Persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections can cause cancer (e.g., cervical/vaginal/penile/anal/oropharyngeal). The HPV vaccine prevents cancer, yet U.S. vaccination rates remain low. We explored sociopolitical factors in the adoption of Puerto Rico’s HPV vaccine school-entry requirement. Multiple streams framework explains how the intersection of problems, policy, and politics streams influence policy adoption. Policy entrepreneurs work on…
Introducing “A Blast from the Past,” a New Feature of Human Organization
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen; Introducing “A Blast from the Past,” a New Feature of Human Organization. Human Organization 1 June 2021; 80 (2): 87. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.2.87 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Ma…
Introducing Our New Cover
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen; Introducing Our New Cover. Human Organization 1 March 2021; 80 (1): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley …
A Protracted Pandemic
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Deven Gray, Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen; A Protracted Pandemic: Anthropological Responses to the Ongoing COVID-19 Crisis. Human Organization 1 December 2021; 80 (4): 259–262. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.4.259 Downl…
Anthropological Engagement with Covid-19
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Deven Gray, David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza; Anthropological Engagement with COVID-19. Human Organization 1 December 2020; 79 (4): 247–249. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.247 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Referen…
Young adult US-born Latina women’s thoughts, feelings and beliefs about unintended pregnancy
Current measures of unintended pregnancy underestimate the co-occurring, complex set of social, cultural, economic and structural factors that influence how women interpret unintended pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to prospectively explore young adult US-born Latinas’ thoughts, feelings and beliefs about pregnancy, specifically unintended pregnancies and the sociocultural factors identified as contributors to those beliefs. In-depth int…
Food Insecurity and Age at Menarche in Tampa Bay, Florida
The aim of this study was to assess whether household food insecurity is associated with delayed or early menarche among girls in the United States. Thirty-six dyadic household interviews were conducted with mothers and adolescent girls. The interviews included a socio-demographic survey, the USDA Six-Item Short Form Household Food Security Survey Module, anthropometric measurements, and the self-administered Youth-Adolescent Food Frequency Quest…
Preparing Students for Applied Work In and Outside Academia
This article describes a few of the strategies that have proven useful in the training of applied anthropology students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in preparation for careers in and outside of academia. Reflecting on our experiences as professors in one of the premier applied anthropology programs in the nation, we highlight our efforts to provide solid training through (1) strategies to enhance professionalization skills for bo…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Practicing International
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen, Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Bonnie Taub, Reza Jarrahy, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Jennifer L. Syvertsen, Andy Guise, Jessica Healy-Profitós, Barbara A. Piperata, Mark Moritz, Jiyoung L…
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Knowledge and Attitudes, Preventative Health Behaviors, and Medical Mistrust Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of College Women
Tourism and HIV
This article describes the involvement of women from rural Costa Rica, where tourism is predominant, in the creation of HIV/AIDS awareness materials that are appropriate for families and peers. The project was conducted in four towns in the Monteverde Zone, a region that has experienced a transition from an economy based on agriculture and dairy farming, to one dependent on tourism. Informed by previous research that shows the signi ficant impact…
Tourism, Economic Insecurity, and Nutritional Health in Rural Costa Rica
Rapid economic transformations have both positive and negative consequences for nutrition and health. This article presents data from an area of rural Costa Rica that has experienced a rapid economic shift from dairy farming and coffee production to a mixed economy based increasingly on tourism and to a lesser extent on agriculture. During a one-year period (2004-2005), sociodemographic, employment, dietary intake, food security, anthropometric, …
Syndemic Theory as a Model for Training and Mentorship to Address Hiv/Aids Among Latinos in the United States
Syndemic Theory posits that an understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic can only be gained by examining the dynamic interaction of the disease with other health problems (e.g., tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, malnutrition, substance abuse), in the context of social and structural conditions such as poverty, unequal access to resources, violence, stigma, etc. While the theory has been extensively used to guide research, it has not bee…
Eliminating “Hunger” in the U.S
In 2006, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the word “hunger” would be removed from official policy statements, substituting it with “very low food security.” Technically, this change is valid given that the term “hunger” can have various meanings and that, while the Food Security Supplement (FSS) in the Current Population Survey (CPS) identifies problems with food access and nutritional adequacy at the household le…
Anthropological perspectives on the challenges to monitoring and evaluating HIV and Aids programming in Lesotho
This article focuses on how numerous international nongovernmental organisations (INGOs) have stepped forward to provide services related to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment in Lesotho. We highlight some widely recognised challenges associated with the INGO approach and describe how people working in that sector in Lesotho experience similar challenges, focusing especially on weak or inadequate monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Partially in r…
Addressing the HIV/Aids—food insecurity syndemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Recently a few vocal health experts have suggested that some of the billions of dollars currently used to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS be reallocated to address more basic problems such as malnutrition, tuberculosis, malaria, and enteric and diarrheal disease caused by lack of access to clean water. While not universally agreed upon, this reassessment of policy priorities acknowledges that there are multiple other health problems that deserve r…
The space between
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Dealing With the Global Food Crisis in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of sustainable community-based initiatives that could help to ameliorate the impact of the global food crisis in developing countries. To do so, we present a discussion of a sustainable agriculture program in Lesotho, in sub-Saharan Africa. We contextualize the discussion in the framework of both the food crisis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both of which are…
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
Tourism, Economic Insecurity, and Nutritional Health in Rural Costa Rica
Rapid economic transformations have both positive and negative consequences for nutrition and health. This article presents data from an area of rural Costa Rica that has experienced a rapid economic shift from dairy farming and coffee production to a mixed economy based increasingly on tourism and to a lesser extent on agriculture. During a one-year period (2004-2005), sociodemographic, employment, dietary intake, food security, anthropometric, …
The space between
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Knowledge and Attitudes, Preventative Health Behaviors, and Medical Mistrust Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of College Women
Traditional Medicine in Africa
Traditional medicine is the main, and often the only, source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the developing world. Systems of traditional medicine are usually rooted in long-standing cultural traditions, take a holistic approach to health, and are community based. The World Health Organization has long recognized the central role traditional systems of care can play in efforts to provide primary health care, especially…
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities
Eliminating “Hunger” in the U.S
In 2006, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the word “hunger” would be removed from official policy statements, substituting it with “very low food security.” Technically, this change is valid given that the term “hunger” can have various meanings and that, while the Food Security Supplement (FSS) in the Current Population Survey (CPS) identifies problems with food access and nutritional adequacy at the household le…
Preparing Students for Applied Work In and Outside Academia
This article describes a few of the strategies that have proven useful in the training of applied anthropology students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in preparation for careers in and outside of academia. Reflecting on our experiences as professors in one of the premier applied anthropology programs in the nation, we highlight our efforts to provide solid training through (1) strategies to enhance professionalization skills for bo…
Anthropological Approaches to the Global Food Crisis
The food riots and demonstrations that occurred in more than 50 countries in 2008 signaled the oncoming global economic recession. Skyrocketing food and fuel prices spurred on violence in poorer countries where there is no social safety net and in places impacted by food insecurity and malnutrition. Today, while the prices for some food staples have retracted a little, the deepening economic recession poses a threat in wealthier nations including…
Dealing With the Global Food Crisis in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of sustainable community-based initiatives that could help to ameliorate the impact of the global food crisis in developing countries. To do so, we present a discussion of a sustainable agriculture program in Lesotho, in sub-Saharan Africa. We contextualize the discussion in the framework of both the food crisis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both of which are…
Food habits of drug-using Puerto Rican women in inner-city Hartford
Research on the impact of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs on the dietary patterns of drug users is limited. This paper presents qualitative data from Project SANA (Salud y Nutrición en Addición/Health and Nutrition in Addiction) on the food habits of drug‐using Puerto Rican women in inner‐city Hartford, Connecticut. The results indicate that both the quantity and the quality of food intake are inadequate in this group of women. The physiological…
Changes in body weight in Basotho women
The ability of populations to cope biologically with seasonal stress may depend upon socioeconomic conditions at the household level. In this study seasonal weight change (i.e., absolute weight change, weight change as a percentage of total body weight, and weight loss episodes) was examined in the context of household socioeconomic status (SES) for women from 195 households in highland Lesotho over a period of three seasons. Households were divi…
Sexual Networking and Aids in Sub‐Saharan Africa
A comparison of the nutritional status and food security of drug-using and non-drug-using Hispanic women in Hartford, Connecticut
This study compared food insecurity, nutritional status (as measured through anthropometry and dietary intake), and food preparation patterns of low-income Puerto Rican female out-of-treatment drug users with that of low-income Puerto Rican women who reported no drug use. A convenience sample of 41 drug users was compared with 41 age-matched non-drug-users from inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. A culturally appropriate food frequency questionnair…
A comparison of the nutritional status and food security of drug‐using and non‐drug‐using Hispanic women in Hartford, Connecticut
Food habits of drug-using Puerto Rican women in inner-city Hartford
Research on the impact of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs on the dietary patterns of drug users is limited. This paper presents qualitative data from Project SANA (Salud y Nutrición en Addición/Health and Nutrition in Addiction) on the food habits of drug‐using Puerto Rican women in inner‐city Hartford, Connecticut. The results indicate that both the quantity and the quality of food intake are inadequate in this group of women. The physiological…
Traditional Medicine in Africa
Traditional medicine is the main, and often the only, source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the developing world. Systems of traditional medicine are usually rooted in long-standing cultural traditions, take a holistic approach to health, and are community based. The World Health Organization has long recognized the central role traditional systems of care can play in efforts to provide primary health care, especially…
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
Ethical but Unfunded? Planning HIV Mitigation in Lesotho
For those of us working in the public sector (or with public monies) there are particular strategies that are applied in the process of getting IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval and in justifying and securing funding. This paper takes a quick glimpse into the implications of some of the rhetorical and methodological approaches taken in rationalizing interventions and research work on HIV in Africa. The goal of this is to provoke ourselves…
Anthropological perspectives on the challenges to monitoring and evaluating HIV and Aids programming in Lesotho
This article focuses on how numerous international nongovernmental organisations (INGOs) have stepped forward to provide services related to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment in Lesotho. We highlight some widely recognised challenges associated with the INGO approach and describe how people working in that sector in Lesotho experience similar challenges, focusing especially on weak or inadequate monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Partially in r…
Addressing the HIV/Aids—food insecurity syndemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Recently a few vocal health experts have suggested that some of the billions of dollars currently used to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS be reallocated to address more basic problems such as malnutrition, tuberculosis, malaria, and enteric and diarrheal disease caused by lack of access to clean water. While not universally agreed upon, this reassessment of policy priorities acknowledges that there are multiple other health problems that deserve r…
The space between
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Dealing With the Global Food Crisis in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of sustainable community-based initiatives that could help to ameliorate the impact of the global food crisis in developing countries. To do so, we present a discussion of a sustainable agriculture program in Lesotho, in sub-Saharan Africa. We contextualize the discussion in the framework of both the food crisis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both of which are…
Anthropological Approaches to the Global Food Crisis
The food riots and demonstrations that occurred in more than 50 countries in 2008 signaled the oncoming global economic recession. Skyrocketing food and fuel prices spurred on violence in poorer countries where there is no social safety net and in places impacted by food insecurity and malnutrition. Today, while the prices for some food staples have retracted a little, the deepening economic recession poses a threat in wealthier nations including…
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
Eliminating “Hunger” in the U.S
In 2006, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the word “hunger” would be removed from official policy statements, substituting it with “very low food security.” Technically, this change is valid given that the term “hunger” can have various meanings and that, while the Food Security Supplement (FSS) in the Current Population Survey (CPS) identifies problems with food access and nutritional adequacy at the household le…
Tourism, Economic Insecurity, and Nutritional Health in Rural Costa Rica
Rapid economic transformations have both positive and negative consequences for nutrition and health. This article presents data from an area of rural Costa Rica that has experienced a rapid economic shift from dairy farming and coffee production to a mixed economy based increasingly on tourism and to a lesser extent on agriculture. During a one-year period (2004-2005), sociodemographic, employment, dietary intake, food security, anthropometric, …
Syndemic Theory as a Model for Training and Mentorship to Address Hiv/Aids Among Latinos in the United States
Syndemic Theory posits that an understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic can only be gained by examining the dynamic interaction of the disease with other health problems (e.g., tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, malnutrition, substance abuse), in the context of social and structural conditions such as poverty, unequal access to resources, violence, stigma, etc. While the theory has been extensively used to guide research, it has not bee…
Tourism and HIV
This article describes the involvement of women from rural Costa Rica, where tourism is predominant, in the creation of HIV/AIDS awareness materials that are appropriate for families and peers. The project was conducted in four towns in the Monteverde Zone, a region that has experienced a transition from an economy based on agriculture and dairy farming, to one dependent on tourism. Informed by previous research that shows the signi ficant impact…
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Knowledge and Attitudes, Preventative Health Behaviors, and Medical Mistrust Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of College Women
Introduction to the Special Issue
Practicing International
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nancy Romero-Daza, David Himmelgreen, Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Bonnie Taub, Reza Jarrahy, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Jennifer L. Syvertsen, Andy Guise, Jessica Healy-Profitós, Barbara A. Piperata, Mark Moritz, Jiyoung L…
Anthropological Engagement with Covid-19
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Deven Gray, David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza; Anthropological Engagement with COVID-19. Human Organization 1 December 2020; 79 (4): 247–249. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.247 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Referen…
Young adult US-born Latina women’s thoughts, feelings and beliefs about unintended pregnancy
Current measures of unintended pregnancy underestimate the co-occurring, complex set of social, cultural, economic and structural factors that influence how women interpret unintended pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to prospectively explore young adult US-born Latinas’ thoughts, feelings and beliefs about pregnancy, specifically unintended pregnancies and the sociocultural factors identified as contributors to those beliefs. In-depth int…
Food Insecurity and Age at Menarche in Tampa Bay, Florida
The aim of this study was to assess whether household food insecurity is associated with delayed or early menarche among girls in the United States. Thirty-six dyadic household interviews were conducted with mothers and adolescent girls. The interviews included a socio-demographic survey, the USDA Six-Item Short Form Household Food Security Survey Module, anthropometric measurements, and the self-administered Youth-Adolescent Food Frequency Quest…
Medicine (21 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Food security (9 works) · Citation (7 works)