Illness and mortality have social origins, and infants and children are especially susceptible
to the impacts of adverse social experiences. Early-life stress (ELS)–physiological …

Objectives: Little is known about the mortality of children along the US-Mexico border. The
objective of our study was to determine whether mortality rates among Hispanic children …

Abstract US early-life (ages 1–24) deaths are tragic, far too common, and largely
preventable. Yet demographers have focused scant attention on US early-life mortality …

We examine the influence of the relative good health at birth in the Mexican American
population on their subsequent well-being. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth …

Mexican-American infants have surprisingly low mortality rates, given their high-risk
demographic characteristics. One explanation for this well-known paradox is the beneficial …

Socioeconomic, medical care, and public health contexts are examined in Peruvian
communities for their relationship to infant mortality. A deviant case analysis is used to …

This research provides a longitudinal view of early childhood economic deprivation and its
associations with health among young Hispanic children born in the United States. Of …

Objective: To examine whether measures of neighbourhood economic deprivation, social
disorganisation, and acculturation explain homicide mortality differentials between Mexican …

Objectives: This study sought to determine whether neighborhood impoverishment explains
the racial disparity in urban postneonatal mortality rates. Methods: Stratified and multivariate …

In this article I argue for the desirability of linking data, methods, and theoretical perspectives
from sociocultural and biological anthropology, and provide methodological examples for …