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María
Hilda García-Pérez
E-mail: Hilda.garcia@asu.edu
Hilda García-Pérez is a social epidemiologist and demographer
with a primary research interest in the influence of social factors on
health outcomes. She has investigated gender differences in the experience
of late adulthood and the health benefits of social support systems for
elderly persons in Northern Mexico as well as the connection between contextual
factors, physical activity and chronic disease in reproductive age women.
She also has been involved in applied research projects, including community-based
interventions focused on cervical cancer prevention among indigenous Mixtecas.
Her current work focus primarily in urban areas of Mexico and the Southwest
borderlands where she is examining the burden of sexual and reproductive
morbidities on women’s quality of life; sexual behavior among high
school students in Guanajuato; and access to health services in communities
along the Arizona-Sonora border.
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