Mexican immigrants deliver good news: nice, healthy babies

“Kate Masley first heard about the “Latina paradox” through a professor in graduate school. She was intrigued by what she learned: Despite low income, low education levels and insufficient health insurance, Mexican immigrant women were giving birth to healthy infants.

The 31-year-old Pittsburgh native crafted her dissertation on the topic titled “Living the Latina Paradox: An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexicans in Northeast Ohio.” In August, she will receive her doctorate in medical anthropology from Case Western Reserve University.”

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