The Importance of Health and Social Protection Assets in the Economic Welfare of Households in Mexico

This paper seeks determines how the possession of health and social protection assets affects the probability of a household belonging to a given quintile of a proposed asset ownership index.  An ordered logistic regression model was constructed. As a dependent variable, the quintile of each household was used according to the index. This research is  based on 48 explanatory variables from the 2020 National Income and Expenses Survey. It confirms that health and social protection assets are relevant in the location of households in a quintile according to its socioeconomic condition. Estimated marginal effects and predictions for every quintile, show that the effect of the assets varies according to the quintile. Ownership of specific assets increase the likelihood of belonging to the higher quintiles. The possession of a voluntary pension fund is the most relevant asset. The empirical results obtained may contribute to design more efficient inequality-reducing public policies by promoting its acquisition and thereby encouraging social mobility. Main limitations of this research are related with the small number of health and social-protection related variables in the survey.importancia de los activos de salud y protección social en el bienestar económico de los hogares en MéxicoEste artículo busca determina cómo la posesión de activos de salud y protección social afecta la probabilidad de pertenencia de un hogar a un determinado quintil de un índice de activos propuesto. Se construyó un modelo de regresión logística ordenada. Como variable dependiente se usó el quintil de cada hogar según el índice propuesto. Se usaron 48 variables explicativas de la Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso y Gasto de los Hogares 2020. Se confirma que los activos de salud y protección social son relevantes en la ubicación de los hogares en un quintil según su condición socioeconómica. Los efectos marginales estimados y las predicciones para cada quintil muestran que el efecto de los activos varía según el quintil y que determinados activos aumentan la probabilidad de pertenecer a los quintiles más altos. La posesión de un fondo de pensiones voluntario es el activo más relevante. Los resultados empíricos obtenidos pueden contribuir al diseño políticas públicas más eficientes para reducir la desigualdad al promover su adquisición e incentivar la movilidad social. Las principales limitaciones de esta investigación se relacionan con el número reducido de variables de salud y protección social en la encuesta

La orientación educativa en México. Su historia y perfil del orientador

La orientación educativa es un área que ha jugado un rol fundamental dentro de la educación básica, media superior y superior a lo largo de la historia. El presente trabajo se refiere a un estudio de tipo explicativo y esta divido en tres capítulos. El primer capítulo aborda los orígenes de la orientación y su desarrollo histórico en México; en el segundo capítulo se exponen las competencias y funciones que posee el orientador educativo en México, en este mismo capítulo se abordan las características específicas de la orientación en los distintos niveles de educación. El tercer y último capítulo, sin ser por ello el menos importante, trata sobre la deontología profesional del orientador; es decir, los principios éticos básicos que deben existir en la práctica orientadora. Este estudio fue realizado con el propósito de profundizar en el conocimiento de esta área y ofrecer en un documento breve, la historia y el perfil del orientador educativo en general y en cada uno de los niveles educativos en México

Self-Identity: How URiM Students Navigate Between their Academic Career, Culture, and Family

Previous research on medical school experiences for students focuses on how to holistically admit underrepresented students in medicine (URiM) into medical school, but does not clearly understand their experiences once in medical school. The long-term influence of family for URiM students was explored to determine whether the influence of family had an impact on the students' academic success throughout adolescence into their current academic standing within a premedical program. These findings suggest that culture and family within medical education and how they connected to the self-identity is critical to explore. Studies like this one provide insight into how to improve educational outcomes for URiM students. A cohort of 10 URiM students in the Pre-medical Admissions Pathway Program (PMAP) at the University of Arizona participated in semi-structured interviews in fall of 2014 and was followed up the subsequent spring semester. A qualitative research approach was chosen to collect rich descriptive data on the student's experiences that could not be assessed through other forms of research (Dicicco-Bloom & Crabtree, 2006). Each interview lasted one hour and consisted of questions about the students' personal experiences in their education and how these connect to culture and family. The symbolic interaction and attachment theories were used to analyze the experiences shared by the participants. From this framework, coding themes and key terms were identified to better understanding the data gathered. In the preliminary interviews, family was identified as an important factor in being successful academically (even when students identified themselves as their motivation for education) because of the different types of support families offered this cohort of students. This study identifies how URiM students navigate within their academic, cultural, and familial identities and how these tie into their success within medical school

2014 Library Research Award Essay

2014 Library Research Award. Winning entry, Undergraduate Student CategoryThis item is part of the Katheryne B. Willock Library Research Awards collection. For more information about the Library Research Awards, please email the University Libraries at [email protected]

Expectativas de comportamiento en la clase de matemáticas, en relación con el aprovechamiento

Licenciatura en Psicología Educativ

Preparing Migrant Families for Academic Success

Coming from a Migrant background and being first generation college students we understand the importance of engaging families and communities towards higher education. We wanted to raise awareness to migrant families that higher education can be accomplished. By us partnering up with Migrant Program board members we will be working together to empower Migrant families and encouraging their students to seek higher education. We hope that the migrant students can relate to us and envision themselves in higher education. We will be working with a community-based team in designing a curriculum. Our goal is to engage migrant families and the community in creating pathways for their children’s higher education career. Migrant families need to understand the importance of working together in order for their children to achieve academic success in higher education. The curriculum will be implemented in a ten-week program for Migrant families to attend in September 2015. The Migrant program will invite the migrant families to attend the summer program to educate them about higher education and other topics. Our main goal with our curriculum is to create a college going culture among Migrant families. We will plan different community and trust building exercises that will allow for the families to work together while learning about higher education

Longitudinal Linkages among Parents’ Educational Expectations, Youth’s Educational Expectations, and Competence in Mexican-origin Families

The contribution that parental educational expectations for youth and youth's perceptions of academic competence can have on youth's own educational expectations across early to late adolescence is not well-understood. In a sample of Mexican-origin families, the current study examined longitudinal (from early to late adolescence) associations among mothers, fathers, and youth's educational expectations, how youth's educational expectations were associated with perceived academic competence, and the potential mediating role of youth's perceived academic competence. Data from two-parent families which included one focal child (7th grade: N= 469; youth: Mage = 12.31, 50% female) at three waves (7th, 9th, and 11th grade) were utilized. Structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis were implemented to assess the study's goals. Results revealed significant associations among parents' 7th grade educational expectations and youth's 9th and 11th grade educational expectations. The findings also revealed three significant associations among youth's perceived academic competence and educational expectations between 7th and 11th grade. Specifically, youth's 7th grade perceived academic competence predicted youth's 9th grade educational expectations, youth's 7th grade educational expectations predicted youth's 9th grade perceived academic competence, and youth's 9th grade perceived academic competence predicted youth's 11th grade educational expectations. Multigroup analysis did not reveal gender differences for the associations tested. The findings highlight the long-term significance of parents' educational expectations on youth's educational expectations and underscore youth's academic competence, an individual level factor, as critical to consider for understanding educational expectations across adolescence for Mexican-origin youth

“EL COSTO DE LA MORTALIDAD MATERNA: UNA PERSPECTIVA SOCIAL, EN EL INSTITUTO DE SALUD DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO; 2015.”

RESUMEN Objetivo: Estimar el costo social de la Mortalidad Materna, en el Instituto de Salud del Estado de México; 2015. Material y Métodos: Tipo de estudio Transversal, Analítico y Multicéntrico. Se realizó una muestra determinística de 31 mujeres fallecidas por Mortalidad Materna atendidas en el Instituto de Salud del Estado de México. Las variables incluidas en el Modelo del Costo Social fueron: los Costos directos e indirectos del hogar, los Costos directos Institucionales y los Costos por Pérdida de la Productividad. Se aplicó un cuestionario a los familiares de las pacientes y los patrones de utilización de los Servicios de Salud en el ISEM obtenidos del expediente clínico. Resultados: Los Costos directos Institucionales fueron de $22,237.92 pesos promedio mensual paciente, el costo directo para el hogar$284.36 pesos promedio mensual paciente , el costo indirecto en el hogar al tiempo invertido en la búsqueda, obtención y seguimiento de la atención médica $43.88 pesos promedio mensual y la pérdida de la productividad$ 5,952.00 promedio mensual paciente; por lo que el Costo Social de la Mortalidad Materna en el Instituto de Salud del Estado de México; 2015, asciende a $28,518.16 pesos promedio mensual paciente y el costo anual equivale a$342,218.13 pesos anuales por paciente. Conclusiones: La investigación permitió identificar las variables más relevantes, para estimar la valoración de los Costos a nivel Institucional y de los Gastos del hogar, lo que permitirá integrar a la economía a la salud para abatir la carga de la enfermedad y proveer de conocimientos a los tomadores de decisiones sanitarias, ya que representa y refleja graves consecuencias económicas y sociales del Sistema de Salud para la sociedad y sus familias