Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants, and the consequences of these negative
attitudes and behavior, are key determinants of the economic, sociocultural, and civic …

Executive summary Malnutrition in all its forms, including obesity, undernutrition, and other
dietary risks, is the leading cause of poor health globally. In the near future, the health effects …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Rationale Quantitative health disparities research has increasingly employed
intersectionality as a theoretical tool to investigate how social characteristics intersect to …

Public policies play a crucial role in shaping how immigrants adapt to life in the United
States. Federal, state, and local laws and administrative practices impact immigrants' access …

The education system has been heralded as a tool of liberation and simultaneously critiqued
as a tool of social control to maintain the oppressive status quo. Critical consciousness (CC) …

In 1999, only 20 studies in the public health literature employed instruments to measure self-
reported experiences of discrimination. Fifteen years later, the number of empirical …

There has been a great deal of state-level legislative activity focused on immigration and
immigrants over the past decade in the United States. Some policies aim to improve access …

Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in
public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom …

Objectives: Immigrants are typically healthier than the native-born population in the
receiving country and also tend to be healthier than non-migrants in the countries of origin …