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Understanding the Hispanic Health Paradox Through a Multi-Generation Lens: A Focus on Behavior Disorders

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Health Disparities in Youth and Families

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The Hispanic Health Paradox refers to the usual finding in population health studies that the most vulnerable sub-population of immigrants actually have superior morbidity and mortality compared to either the US population or Hispanics born in the United States. In this paper we examine this paradox using an epidemiologic strategy of scrutinizing inter-generational change processes in the Latino population.

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  1. Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California (USC), USC Roybal Institute, Montgomery Ross Fisher Building, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0411, USA

    William A. Vega

  2. Third Way Statistics, White Lake, NY, USA

    William M. Sribney

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  1. Dept. Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, 68588-0308, Nebraska, USA

    Gustavo Carlo

  2. Dept. Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, 68588-0308, Nebraska, USA

    Lisa J. Crockett

  3. Dept. Sociology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Oldfather Hall 705, Lincoln, 68588, Nebraska, USA

    Miguel A. Carranza

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Vega, W.A., Sribney, W.M. (2011). Understanding the Hispanic Health Paradox Through a Multi-Generation Lens: A Focus on Behavior Disorders. In: Carlo, G., Crockett, L., Carranza, M. (eds) Health Disparities in Youth and Families. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol 57. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7092-3_7

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