REPRODUCTION,
HEALTH AND CULTURE
Reproductive health refers to physical, mental, and social well-being
in all matters relating to the reproductive system throughout life,
entailing a safe, satisfying sex life and the freedom to decide
if, when, and how often to have children. Reproductive health rests
on appropriate health care methods, techniques, and services. However,
competing notions of folklore, personal experience, health education
materials, and scientific theories circulating in each cultural
context shape our perceptions of and responses to our bodies, health,
illness, and suffering. Insight regarding reproductive health experiences,
understandings, concerns, and practices can be applied to addressing
local needs in a culturally-acceptable manner. In my work, for example,
studying the ways in which women and those around them experience
and attend to pregnancy and childbirth has informed programs to
reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Similarly, exploring how
contraceptive (non-)use is shaped by local cultural context (especially
the imbalance of power between men and women) has been crucial for
sensitizing family planning programs and policy.
Titles in Spanish indicate work written, published, and/or presented
in Spanish. Translated titles follow in parentheses.
Publications
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Publications authored by Namino Glantz
“Intención y realidad ante el parto: Las representaciones
sociales del embarazo problemático.”
(“Intention and reality when facing childbirth: Social representations
of problematic pregnancy.”)
Tinoco R, Martínez I, Glantz N, Ovando I. Poblaciones 2(2)
: 3-10. 2006.
“Childbirth care-seeking behavior in Chiapas.”
Hunt LM, Glantz NM, Halperin D. In: Health Care for Women International
23(1): 115-135. 2002.
“Diez Años de Investigación y Acción
en el Sur de Chiapas: Programa Género y Salud Reproductiva.”
(“Ten Years of Research and Action in Southern Chiapas: Gender
and Reproductive Health Program.”)
Glantz N, Martinez I, de León P. Comitán, Chiapas,
Mexico: CISC.
“Conflict and contraception in Chiapas, Mexico.”
Halperin D, Nazar A, Glantz NM. In: Current Reproductive Health
Concerns Series. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 1999.
“Childbirth care-seeking behavior in Chiapas.”
Glantz N, Halperin D. In: Gender, Reproductive Health and Population
Policies III. Quezon City, Philippines: Institute for Development
Research Amsterdam, Univ. of Amsterdam, Health Action Information
Network, Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Pp. 67-81. 1996.
“Improving reproductive health in Chiapas, Mexico: New findings
on contraception from quantitative and qualitative studies.”
Halperin D, Nazar A, Glantz N. In: Gender, Reproductive Health and
Population Policies I. Amsterdam: Institute for Development Research
& Univ. of Amsterdam. Pp. 22-29. 1995.
Manuscripts Not Yet Published
"Obstetric risk screening and lay delineation of problematic
pregnancy in Chiapas, Mexico."
Tinoco R, Glantz N, Martinez I. Submitted in July 2006, currently
under review in Social Science & Medicine.
“Niwan Chamel – ‘The Big Illness’ Pregnancy
Among Tojolabales Of Chiapas, Mexico.”
Glantz N. Master’s Report. Tucson: University of Arizona.
151 pages. 2003.
“Seasonality, childbearing, and health” (and annotated
bibliography).
Glantz N. Tucson: University of Arizona. 50 pages. 2002.
“Resilience research on adolescent childbearing.”
Glantz N. Tucson: University of Arizona. 22 pages. 2001.
“Meta-pause: Metaphors and metalanguages of menopause.”
Glantz N. Tucson: University of Arizona. 24 pages. 2000.
Presentations
“Childbirth care preferences in Chiapas, Mexico.”
Glantz N, Hunt L, Halperin D. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
1999.
“Preferencias para la atención al parto en Chiapas.”
(“Childbirth care preferences in Chiapas.”)
Glantz N, Hunt L, Halperin D. Mexican National Public Health Institute
(INSP) VIII National Research Congress, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1999.
“Culture, conflict and contraception in Chiapas.”
Halperin D & Glantz N. Consortium for Social Sciences and Health
(COSSAH) Annual Meeting, Boston, 1997.
Working Group on Gender, Reproductive Health and Population Policies
(GRHPP) Global Meeting, Amsterdam, 1997.
“Relaciones sexuales, salud reproductiva y género en
Chiapas.”
(“Sex, reproductive health, and gender in Chiapas.”)
Halperin D & Glantz N. CORSAR Meeting, Comitán, Chiapas,
Mexico, 1997.
IX Internacional Medical Congress, Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico,
1997.
“El papel de los familiares en problemas relacionados con
el uso de métodos anticonceptivos.”
(“The role of relatives in problems related to contraceptive
use.”)
Glantz N, Halperin D, Nazar A. Mexican National Public Health Institute
(INSP) VII National Research Congress, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1997.
“Childbirth care-seeking behavior in Chiapas.”
Glantz N & Halperin D. Working Group on Gender, Reproductive
Health and Population Policies (GRHPP) Global Meeting, San Cristóbal,
Chiapas, Mexico, 1996.
“Improving reproductive health in Chiapas, Mexico: New findings
on contraception from quantitative and qualitative studies.”
Halperin D, Nazar A, Glantz N. American Anthropological Association
(AAA) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, 1995.
Working Group on Gender, Reproductive Health and Population Policies
(GRHPP) Global Meeting, Zimbabwe, 1995. |
