Objectives. We examined the “Hispanic paradox,” whereby persons of Hispanic origin
seemed to experience lower mortality than the non-Hispanic White population. This paradox …

In recent decades, the geographic origins of America's foreign-born population have
become increasingly diverse. The sending countries of the US foreign-born vary …

It is well known that Hispanic immigrants exhibit better physical and mental health than their
US-born counterparts. Scholars theorize that stronger orientations toward the family, also …

This paper investigates age variations in foreign-born vs. native-born mortality ratios in an
international comparative perspective, with the purpose of gaining insight into the …

Despite having lower levels of education and limited access to health care services,
Mexican immigrants report better health outcomes than US-born individuals. Research …

Anthropometric measures including height provide an indication of childhood health that
allows exploration of relationships between early life circumstances and adult health. Height …

Objectives: This study examines how the linkage of surveys to death records differs for
Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites and how such differences affect estimates of ethnic …

Objectives: In this article, we investigate the association between age at migration and
mortality during a 13-year period in a sample of Mexican American immigrants 65 and older …

Topics discussed at the “Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health
Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias” …

Improving race and ethnicity (hereafter, race/ethnicity) data quality is imperative to ensure
underserved populations are represented in data sets used to identify health disparities and …