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Immigration and health /
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. E...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing,
2019.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Advances in medical sociology ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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