Journal of Pregnancy and Child Health
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Biography

Miriam Castaldo is an anthropologist. Is currently medical anthropologist at National Institute for Health, Migrant and Poverty (NIHMP) in Rome, Italy. From 1999 to 2006 she lived in Mexico, where she received her PhD and Master Degree in social and medical anthropology from the IIA (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas) UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Her anthropology degree is from La Sapienza University of Rome. She has worked in Latin-America, North Africa (in saharawi refugee camp) and Western Asia (in palestinian refugee camp). She teach medical anthropology in european hospitals, universities, health care professional associations.

Research Interest

Her current research focuses on issues of medical anthropology, migration and refugees in Europe, Latin-America, West Africa and West Asia, social violence and psychophysical suffering as well as on structural connection between life and history. She is interested in sociocultural, socio-political and historical forces that influence the biographical experiences of illness in migrant and refugees person.

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Publications

Multidisciplinary Study on the Socio-Cultural Barriers to Breastfeeding and on the Health of Children and Adolescents Immigrated in Italy from Latin America and Europe

Susto: Etiology of Mental Disorders in Mothers and Children in Mexico

Miriam Castaldo, Concetta Mirisola, Daniela Feria, Laura Piombo and Rosalia Marrone

Research Article: J Preg Child Health

DOI: 10.4172/2376-127X.1000260

Miriam Castaldo

Research Article: J Preg Child Health 2015, 2:206

DOI: 10.4172/2376-127X.1000206