Publications by authors named "Estela Arcos"
Background: The adverse impact of poverty and migration in pregnant women is expressed in diverse results in reproductive, mental and child health, all of which are related to lack of documentation to reside in the country, absence of health insurance and no economic resources to pay private services, or either not understanding the administrative procedures.
Objective: To understand the experience of immigrant women in the process of motherhood and rearing infants under 6 months, in the context of social vulnerability in an urban area of Santiago de Chile.
Design: Qualitative research design, with descriptive analysis data and interpretation gradually given to explicity the findings relevant the study with women from a healthcare center in the urban region of Chile.
Background: Social capital is an economical idea that refers to connections between individuals and entities that can be economically valuable.
Aim: To establish the relationship of social capital as a health care asset, with sociodemographic variables of older women attending public health care services.
Material And Methods: Chens Personal Social Capital scale was applied to 113 women aged between 64 and 80 years during 2014.
OBJECTIVE To analyze the effectiveness of the Chilean System of Childhood Welfare in transferring benefits to socially vulnerable families. METHODS A cross-sectional study with a sample of 132 families from the Metropolitan Region, Chile, stratified according to degree of social vulnerability, between September 2011 and January 2012. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with mothers of the studied families in public health facilities or their households.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To establish the effectiveness of the public benefits and services of the "Chile Grows with You" and "Protect Network" programs for socially vulnerable women and children in an urban community in the Metropolitan Region of Chile.
Method: Descriptive study employing a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 132 mothers and their 133 infants, all grouped according to social vulnerability.
Objective: to understand the future expectations and experience of vulnerable mothers from pregnancy to their child's early years.
Methods: this qualitative study used the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz as a framework. From January to April 2011, nine mothers from the 2009 program "Chile Grows with You" were interviewed at health centers in an urban Santiago de Chile community.
Background: The program "Chile grows with you" is a part of the Chilean social protection system oriented to decrease social inequities from pregnancy (a socially secure pregnancy) to four years of age, directed to the poorest 40% of the population.
Aim: To determine the incidence of social vulnerability and its determinants, starting at the gestation period.
Material And Methods: Data was obtained from anonymous secondary data based on the records of the first assessment of pregnant women and from social protection surveys, provided by the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation.
Background: Gender must be considered in the design and implementation of health policies to safeguard equity and accomplish sanitary objectives.
Aim: To identify gender perspective in the curricula of five health care careers in the Universidad Austral de Chile. To identify the situation of women in the teaching profile of such curricula.
Background: There is close association between maltreatment during pregnancy and child abuse after birth.
Aim: To compare anthropometric growth and use of health services of children whose mothers suffered maltreatment with children coming from families without domestic violence.
Subjects And Methods: A longitudinal study of two cohorts.