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Papers by Marlynn May

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... Link residents with service providers Contribute to diminish isolation of colonia residents... more ... Link residents with service providers Contribute to diminish isolation of colonia residents Contribute to change providers' attitudes ... Community and Capacity Building ... related to specific topics, and by virtue of the synergy generated between themselves and residents, from ...

Memoria of a Research Workshop “Irregular Settlement and Self-Help Housing in the United States”, Sep 21, 2001

In one-half inch letters splashed across the page, the January 6, 1999 Texas edition of the Wall ... more In one-half inch letters splashed across the page, the January 6, 1999 Texas edition of the Wall Street Journal (TWSJ) declared “Laying It on the Line: the Costs Of Addressing the Border's Needs.” Though vague as to the object of its assertion, virtually every Texas reader would have known immediately that the article's reference was the colonias stretched out along the Texas-Mexico border. 1 The TWSJ article goes on to explain:“There are more than 1,400 substandard communities, or 'colonias,'along the Texas-Mexico border, hundreds of ...

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1983

This volume presents an interdisciplinary forum on the role of American courts, the changes in th... more This volume presents an interdisciplinary forum on the role of American courts, the changes in that role over time, and the changes which may be necessary for courts to meet the demands placed on them by society. 'For me the book's greatest value is in the questions it raises explicitly and implicitly...This book may stimulate research into aspects of judicial governance on which our current ignorance is particularly great. It it does so, its contribution will be considerable indeed.' -- American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1983

Teaching Sociology, 1998

THIS NOTE DESCRIBES a teaching-learning cen-ter designed to enhance students&#x27; agency... more THIS NOTE DESCRIBES a teaching-learning cen-ter designed to enhance students&#x27; agency in their own education and in learning social responsibility (Wright 1989). Scholars since John Dewey have experimented with forms of pedagogy designed to ameliorate the adverse and pacifying effects of the traditional classroom (Argyris and Schon 1974; Dewey 1916; Friere 1970; Kolb 1984). Excellent education, they assert, is based on active and engaged learning. Just over a dozen years ago, The US Department of Education and the National ...

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 2009

This article describes a qualitative investigation of the barriers faced by 60 HIV-positive mothe... more This article describes a qualitative investigation of the barriers faced by 60 HIV-positive mothers in Chennai, India in seeking, accessing, and maintaining healthcare services as well as the general challenges the women experienced as mothers living with HIV. The focus group discussions revealed a number of issues such as stigmatizing behaviors of the healthcare providers as well as location, affordability, and timeliness of services. Suggestions were also offered by the participants on how to best deliver a future HIV intervention. Hello, Dr. Nyamathi. Thank you for joining us today.

American Journal of Public Health, 2001

Poverty, overpopulation, and a lack of environmental controls have combined with cultural and lin... more Poverty, overpopulation, and a lack of environmental controls have combined with cultural and linguistic division to produce a looming public health threat in unincorporated communities on the US-Mexico border. These rapidly multiplying colonias, from a Spanish term for neighborhoods, are settlements of varying size located along the border. Along the American side of the Texas-Mexico border alone, there are approximately 1800 colonias--the largest number of any border state--most of which lack basic water and sewer systems, paved roads, and safe and sanitary housing. Promotoras, from a Spanish term for lay community educators, are community leaders who live in the colonias and build important bridges between residents and the federal and state bureaucracies. These women have been trained to introduce their neighbors to state "systems" of government, education, and medical and social services that otherwise may lie out of reach. Promotoras are able to "translate"...

vannevar bush wrote these words as Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Develop... more vannevar bush wrote these words as Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, he was in the position of arguing to the President of the United States for two simultaneous developments in the future of science in the U.S.: 1) that governmental control should diminish and that the autonomy of publicly funded scientific research should increase after World War II, and 2) that a separate, identifiable governmental agency should be established which would channel increased amounts of public money into fundamental scientific research on a scale previously unknown in history. Bush was prophetic in a way that he could not have foreseen. Following World War II, the scientific community did indeed gain legitimacy and autonomy at a meteoric pace. Furthermore, Bush's dream of a new governmental agency for channelling increasing amounts of public money into independent scientific research bore fruit with the establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1...

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Frontiers in Public Health

A project in a Texas border community setting, Prevention Organized against Diabetes and Dialysis... more A project in a Texas border community setting, Prevention Organized against Diabetes and Dialysis with Education and Resources (POD 2 ER), offered diabetes prevention information, screening, and medical referrals. The setting was a large, longstanding flea market that functions as a shopping mall for low-income people. The priority population included medically underserved urban and rural Mexican Americans. Components of the program addressed those with diabetes, prediabetes, and accompanying relatives and friends. Background: People living in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) face challenges of high rates of type 2 diabetes, lack of knowledge about prevention, and inadequate access to medical care. Recent statistics from actual community-wide screenings indicate a high diabetes prevalence, 30.7% among adults in the LRGV compared with 12.3% nationwide. methods: A diverse team composed of public health faculty, students, a physician, a community health worker, and community volunteers conceived and developed the project with a focus on cultural and economic congruence and a user-friendly atmosphere. The program provided screening for prediabetes and diabetes with a hemoglobin A1c test. Screening was offered to those who were at least 25 years of age and not pregnant. When results indicated diabetes, a test for kidney damage was offered (urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio). A medical appointment at a community clinic within a week was provided to those who tested positive for diabetes and lacked a medical home. Health education modules addressed all family members. discussion: The project was successful in recruiting 2,332 high-risk people in 26 months in a community setting, providing clinic referrals to those without a doctor, introducing them to treatment, and providing diabetes prevention information to all project participants. Implications for research and practice are highlighted. Conclusion: This study shows that a regular access point in a place frequented by large numbers of medically marginalized people in a program designed to eliminate cultural and economic barriers can succeed in providing a hard-to-reach community