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Advances in medical sociology ; v. 19

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

Immigrants > Health and hygiene > United States.

Immigrants > Services for > United States.

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