Stress and Resilience

1. Reproductive Health, Harlem, and Research.- Scenes in Harlem.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Community Participation.- 1.5. Stress and Reproduction.- 2. Where People Live: the Environmental Context of Reproduction.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Environment as a Potential Source of Stress and Chronic Strain.- 2.3. Community Assets.- 2.4. Housing Conditions.- 2.5. Fighting Back: Coping with Housing-Induced Stress.- 2.6. Access to Social Services.- 3. Where People Work: the Economic Context of Reproduction.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Work Site Descriptions.- 3.3. Work Site-Related Stressors.- 3.4. Current Sources of Employment and Income Insecurity.- 3.5. Consequences of Employment and Income Insecurity.- 3.6. Race, Discrimination, and Work as Sources of Interrelated Stress.- 4. Social Support and Reproductive Health.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Support Systems and Reproductive Health.- 4.3. Family, Marriage, and Female-Male Relationships.- 4.4. Pregnancy, Motherhood, and the Social Importance of Reproduction.- 5. Health Care Delivery and Reproductive Health.- 5.1. Pregnancy Intendedness and Recognition.- 5.2. Doctors, Patients, and Different Perceptions.- 5.3. between Engagement and Distrust.- 5.4. Explanations for Pregnancy Loss.- 6. Race, Class, Gender, and Health.- 6.1. Implications for Reproductive Health.- 6.2. The Sojourner Syndrome.- Appendix: Community Profile Charts.- References.