| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Advances in medical sociology ; v. 19 |
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Advances in medical sociology ; v. 19.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Immigration and Health; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Advancing the Field of Immigration and Health; Introduction; Patterns of Immigrant Health; Cross-national Perspectives; Problematizing Acculturation; Structural Influences; Immigration and Health; References; Part I Cross-National Perspectives; Reconsidering the Relationship between Age at Migration and Health Behaviors among US Immigrants: The Modifying Role of Con ... ; Background; The Emergence of a Transnational Framework in Immigrant Health Behavior Research |
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A Combined Approach: Considering both Assimilation and Transnationalism FrameworksEmpirical Example: Age at Migration, Cross-border Ties, and Alcohol Use; A Note on Expected Heterogeneity by Country of Origin and Gender; Hypotheses; Methods; Measures; Alcohol Use; Age at Migration; Cross-border Ties; Covariates; Statistical Analyses; Results; Descriptive Analysis; Main Effect Associations Age at Migration; Main Effect Associations, Cross-border Ties; Interaction between Age at Migration and Cross-border Ties; Sensitivity Analyses; Discussion; Limitations; Recommendations for Future Work |
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ConclusionNotes; Acknowledgment; References; Appendix; Structure, Culture, and HIV/STI Vulnerabilities among Migrant Women in Russia; Introduction; Context; Background and Conceptualization; Data and Method; Data; Method; Results; Statistical Analyses; Insights from In-depth and Expert Interviews; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Part II Problematizing Acculturation; Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation: Why Mexican Americans are Heavier than Mexican Immigrants and Whites; Background; Theoretical Orientation and Conceptual Model |
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Prior Research Supporting the Conceptual ModelEstimating the Conceptual Model; Methods; Data and Sample; Measures; Analysis; Results; Descriptive Results; Structural Equation Model Results; Are Acculturation and Socioeconomic Status Risk Regulators?; Do Acculturation and Socioeconomic Status Explain Ethnic/Nativity Disparities in Weight Gain?; Findings from Supplementary Models; Discussion; Limitations and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Intergenerational Health Transmission among Mexican Americans: Further Evidence of the Protective Effect of Spanish-languag ... ; Introduction |
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Explanations for the Latino Health ParadoxMethods; Results; Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Talking about Teeth: Egocentric Networks and Oral Health Outcomes in a Mexican American Immigrant Community; Introduction; Methods; Dependent Variables; Ego Sociodemographic Variables; Ego Oral Health Variables; Network characteristics; Analyses; Results; Bivariate Results; Multivariate Results for Ego and Oral Health Characteristics; Multivariate Results for Social Network Characteristics; Discussion; References |
| Summary |
The current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the controversy one pattern that has escaped significant notice is that immigrants today are healthier than the native-born. Even more striking is that these positive health profiles are found among those immigrants who tend to have less education and lower income, factors that population health researchers have typically associated with poor health. A final feature of contemporary immigrant health is evidence of a gradual loss of the immigrant health advantage with time in the U.S. and across generations. These paradoxical patterns lie at the center of Volume 19 of Advances in Medical Sociology. Too often, immigrant health is set apart and treated as a specialty research area rather than as a topic that is central to understanding such core sociological concepts as stratification and inequality. The contributors in this volume all leverage a population health perspective to help unravel the patterns and paradoxes of immigrant health, and in doing so, help to clarify more broadly how health dis-parities emerge and persist in the contemporary U.S |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- United States
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Immigrants -- Services for -- United States
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Immigrants -- Health and hygiene
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Immigrants -- Services for
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frank, Reanne, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787430617 |
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1787430618 |
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9781787432512 |
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1787432513 |
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