Browsing by Author "Whitehead, Dawn Michele"

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    The Binational/Crosscultural Health Enhancement Center
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2010-04-09) Bergman, Alicia April; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Clark Jr., Charles M.; Everetts, David R.; Kahn, Hilary E.; Lorant, Diane Estella; Maupome, Gerardo; Mays, Rose M.; Riner, Mary E.; Snodgrass, Michael David; Soto, Armando; Stelzner, Sarah M.; Whitehead, Dawn Michele; Wilson, Gregory A.; Yoder, Karen M.
    The Binational/Cross-Cultural Health Enhancement Center (BiCCHEC) fosters multidisciplinary research collaborations that address the biological, cultural, historical, legal, behavioral and demographic issues that impact the health status of communities where Latinos are born and where they live in Indiana. Since its inception, BiCCHEC projects have been multidisciplinary, 80% of the projects involve two or more IUPUI schools. BiCCHEC projects are also collaborative, 70% of the projects have one or more community partners. BiCCHEC researchers have also established a strong commitment to teaching and service, actively involving students in research (25% of current projects are student led) and servicelearning activities, developing exchange programs through our partnerships and providing direct health services in community organized events. Signature center funds have been utilized to fund internal pilot projects. The current poster will highlight four of those projects that have received pilot funding from signature center funds and have resulted in external grant applications or have already received funding, or have resulted in peer reviewed-publications. These projects are considered representative of BiCCHEC’s activities, because of their collaborative, multidisciplinary and community-based nature and include: • Study on oral health disparities using community-based participatory research • Study on the attitudes regarding children with disabilities, beliefs regarding death, coping skills and supports used during bereavement in communities in Indiana and rural Mexico • Building of a bi-national research partnership for healthful eating and diabetes prevention among Mexican and Mexican-American children • Study on emigration and return migration in 20th Century Mexico: Across the border and back again • Study on the effects of migrants' acculturation on oral health and diet in Indianapolis and Tala, Jaliscco using social network theory
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    MICROFINANCE IN NIGER: A MEANS TO PROMOTE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AND THE COUNTRY’S ADVANCEMENT
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Mayaki, Assoumaou; Whitehead, Dawn Michele
    The purpose of this research is to stimulate Nigerien women’s active par-ticipation in the country’s advancement through the use of proven micro-finance methodologies and framework. Out of the 14.7 million Nigerien in-habitants, 63% live below the poverty line, and 43% of men are literate compared to 15% of women. Furthermore, in 2009, net primary school en-rollment was 54%, with only 40% graduating. Low literacy rates hinder women’s economic and social mobility, thus considerably minimizing the im-pact of their active participation in the country’s development. While wom-en’s lack of education is in some ways attributable to early marriages and religious beliefs, further investigation through review of literature and quali-tative inquiry in the form of interviews of girls and women are needed to un-cover other factors involved, their consequences, and to discover effective ways to address these gender inequities. Subsequently, this study will focus on identifying and investigating microfinance models that are successful in developing countries that share the same demographics as Niger. Additional-ly, the psychological and socio-economic impact of microloans on women will be investigated. Finally, the role that international organisms such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, play in the efforts for poor countries such as Niger to attain economic stability will be investigated.