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About Me
editI am a student at Rice University in Houston, Texas and I am currently studying Psychology, Global Health Technologies, and Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. I am very involved and interested in volunteer work, medical outreach, soccer, traveling, and photography. I hope to make valuable contributions to Wikipedia throughout my time at Rice University. Last semester, I was a member of a SOCI 371 class at Rice University. The new article that I wrote for my class in the fall is Health in Guatemala. For this upcoming semester, I am a part of the SOCI 394 course about human development. For this course, I will once again contribute to a Wikipedia article or even generate another new article.
Training for Students complete!
Previous Topic for Wikipedia Article
editI spent two weeks in the summer of 2015 in Guatemala as a part of a medical outreach team. I learned a lot about the health system and the amount of time that was dedicated to health education. While I was looking up Guatemala on Wikipedia, I noticed that the only section that they had on health was in the actual article about the country as a whole. I thought that it would be incredibly beneficial to start a new article focused on Guatemalan health itself. The parent article for Health is very dense and has so much information that covers a wide range of topics relating to health. Therefore, I thought it was necessary that there is a subset article about health in Guatemala, a country that suffers immensely in terms of health care availability.
I have completely created and finished this new article, so all of the organization and writing is my own work.
Spring Semester Topic Proposal for Wikipedia Article
editI have always been interested in human rights and how it relates to health care in the larger sense. The human rights implications in a certain country can greatly affect its overall success in health care and accessibility. Similarly, there are so many areas of human rights that I am not familiar with and I would love to be able to research about the different problems in a country outside of my own. Therefore, because of my trip to Peru this summer, I would love to learn more about the human rights problems that the country is facing before I get there. I think that human rights are so connected to the health of individuals, making it very interesting to research and relate to the overall health of Peru. If I wrote on this topic, I would be adding and expanding the Human Rights in Peru article. I think it would be beneficial to section out the article, adding headings like labor rights, reproductive rights, health rights, etc. From here, I will be able to develop the article even further.
I am regenerating the article for Human Rights in Peru for this semester.
Resources
Cabin, Michael A. "Labor Rights in the Peru Agreement: Can Vague Principles Yield Concrete Change?." Columbia Law Review (2009): 1047-1093.
Cáceres, C., M. Cueto, and N. Palomino. "Policies around sexual and reproductive health and rights in Peru: Conflict, biases and silence.” Global Public Health 3, no. S2 (2008): 39-57.
Coe, Anna-Britt. "Health rights and realities: an analysis of the ReproSalud Project in Peru." (2001).
Field, Erica. "Entitled to work: Urban property rights and labor supply in Peru." Princeton Law & Public Affairs Working Paper 02-1 (2002): 1-63.
Garcia, Maria Elena. "The politics of community: education, indigenous rights, and ethnic mobilization in Peru." Latin American Perspectives (2003): 70-95.
García, María Elena. "Rethinking bilingual education in Peru: Intercultural politics, state policy and indigenous rights." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7, no. 5 (2004): 348-367.
Gray, Andrew. Indigenous rights and development: self-determination in an Amazonian community. Vol. 3. Berghahn Books, 1997.
Levitt, Peggy, and Sally Merry. "Vernacularization on the ground: local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States." Global Networks 9, no. 4 (2009): 441-461.
Miranda, J. Jaime, and Alicia Ely Yamin. "Reproductive health without rights in Peru." The Lancet 363, no. 9402 (2004): 68-69.
US Department of State. “Peru 2014 Human Rights Report.” (2014). http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/236922.pdf