The parent empowerment model emerged from a thorough review of the parent empowerment literature (Bolivar & Chrispeels, 2011; Cochran & Dean, 1991; Delgado-Gaitan, 1991; Ditrano & Silverstein, 2006; Holcomb-McCoy & Bryan, 2010;
Jasis & Ordonez-Jasis, 2012; Warren, Hong, Rubin, & Uy, 2009).
This focus on changes to the communication process is echoed by Sutton (1996) in the special issue of
JASIS mentioned above.
The authors of this article believed that qualitative data, similar to Ordonez-Jasis and
Jasis' (2004) approach, can meet the after-school research challenges initially proposed by Scott-Little et al., (2002).
Lancaster (1971b) published an important paper on cost-effectiveness analysis in
JASIS, in which he emphasized the distinction between cost effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of information systems.
Latino population, many Latinas/os living in the United States experience stressors related to racism and discrimination, acculturative distress, and high poverty rates (Ordonez-Jasis &
Jasis, 2004; Schwarzbaum, 2004).
El unico estudio que reporta la utilizacion transfronteriza de medicina es el realizado por Guendelman y
Jasis (1990) en Tijuana, habiendo encontrado que solamente 2,5% de la poblacion mexicana en Tijuana usa servicios de salud en Estados Unidos.
In the next section, Rosario Ordonez-Jasis and Pablo
Jasis review Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, a disturbing story about the fabrication and perpetuation of fear in society, especially in the United States.