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Medication For Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy - Maternal And Infant Network To Understand Outcomes Associated With Use Of Medication For Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy (Mat-Link), 2014-2021, Kathryn Miele, Shin Y. Kim, Rachelle Jones, Juneka H. Rembert, Elisha M. Wachman, Hira Shrestha, Michelle L. Henninger, Teresa M. Kimes, Patrick D. Schneider, Vaseekaran Sivaloganathan, Katherine A. Sward, Vikrant G. Deshmukh, Pilar M. Sanjuan, Jessie R. Maxwell, Neil S. Seligman, Sarah Caveglia, Judette M. Louis, Tanner Wright, Carolyne Cody Bennett, Caitlin Green, Nisha George, Lucas Gosdin, Emmy L. Tran, Dana Meaney-Delman, Suzanne M. Gilboa

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

PROBLEM: Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is recommended for persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy. However, knowledge gaps exist about best practices for management of OUD during pregnancy and these data are needed to guide clinical care.

PERIOD COVERED: 2014-2021.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SYSTEM: Established in 2019, the Maternal and Infant Network to Understand Outcomes Associated with Medication for Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy (MAT-LINK) is a surveillance network of seven clinical sites in the United States. Boston Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, The Ohio State University, and the University of Utah were the initial clinical sites …

Unrecognised Self-Injury Mortality (Sim) Trends Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities And Women In The Usa, Ian R H Rockett, Eric D. Caine, Hilary S. Connery, Kurt B. Nolte, Paul S. Nestadt, Lewis S. Nelson, Haomiao Jia

Pathology Research and Scholarship

AIM: To assess whether an enhanced category combining suicides with non-suicide drug self-intoxication fatalities more effectively captures the burden of self-injury mortality (SIM) in the USA among US non-Hispanic black and Hispanic populations and women irrespective of race/ethnicity.

METHODS: This observational study used deidentified national mortality data for 2008-2017 from the CDC's

RESULTS: While the suicide rate increased by 29% for blacks, 36% for Hispanics and 25% for non-Hispanic whites between 2008 and 2017, corresponding SIM rate increases were larger at 109%, 69% and 55% (p

CONCLUSION: Application of SIM exposed substantial excess burdens from substance poisoning relative to suicide …

The Immigrant Population Amid Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis: A Compiled Project For Nurs 518, Maureen S. Reyes

Population Health

Immigrants has been part of the United States (US) historical society ever since this country has long been discovered. They say that this nation is built by immigrants. Some people would strongly disagree; but to be fair that is a reality. The American economy has long thrive and sustained, and has been strengthened by the contributions made by immigrants. Immigrants come from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds; each with their own stories to tell and traditions to share.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made an impact on the socioeconomic and health care inequities of vulnerable and undeserved communities in …

Weekly Message, 1/5/2009, David Schmidly

President Schmidly's Administration

No abstract provided.

"Yo Soy Más Indio Que Tú', Resignificando La Etnicidad : Exploración Teórica E Introducción Al Proceso De Reconstrucción Étnica En Las Comunas De La Península De Santa Elena, Ecuador, Martín Bazurco Osorio

Centro Cultural Abya Yala del Ecuador

Serie Cultura comunal, agua y biodiversidad en la Costa del Ecuador; t.2

No Somos Nada: Ethnicity And Three Dominant And Contradictory Indigenist Discourses In Costa Rica, Karen Stocker

Research Papers

According to many scholars, discourse has the capacity to create the nation rather than simply reflect it. By purporting to objectively describe reality, various texts turn into authoritative voices that determine the ways in which readers perceive that reality. In the case of the Chorotega of Costa Rica to be discussed here, three dominant indigenist discourses--historical,legal, and anthropological-- have formed a trinity of contradictory, yet definitive, authoritative voices regarding the description and definition of Costa Rican indigenous peoples. These three discourses simultaneously create an absence and an ambiguous presence of indigenous peoples in Costa Rica, generally, and of the Chorotega, …

The Making Of An Indigenous Movement: Culture Ethnicity, And Post-Marxist Social Praxis In Ecuador, Chad T. Black

Research Papers

The 1990 Indian Uprising staged by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) forced indigenous issues into the national political discourse of Ecuador through the activities of a post-Marxist, progressive social movement. The formation of CONAIE, in 1986, and the 1990 Uprising were the culmination of an organizational process that began in the 1970s with indigenous regional organizing as a reaction against Marxist/mestizo/ integrationist leadership, repression of traditional leftist organizations, and increasing pressures placed on indigenous communities through Ecuador's heightened position in the capitalist world-economy. This organizational process clarified to indigenous leaders a new vision of progressive social praxis …