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

In this article, we test for four potential explanations of the Hispanic Health Paradox (HHP):
the “salmon bias,” emigration selection, and sociocultural protection originating in either …

Objectives. We tested whether positive selection on childhood predictors of adult mental and
physical health contributed to health advantages of Mexican-born immigrants to the United …

The “Hispanic Paradox” suggests that despite rates of poverty similar to African Americans,
Hispanics have far better health and mortality outcomes, more comparable to non-Hispanic …

Although Latino immigrants come from countries with high levels of inequality, their
socioeconomic gradients in health are generally weaker than those among their US-born co …

Recent empirical findings have suggested the existence of a twist in the Hispanic paradox,
in which Mexican and other Hispanic foreign-born migrants living in the United States …

While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the United States
tend to have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. This phenomenon is known …

Objectives: Investigate the “salmon-bias” hypothesis, which posits that Mexicans in the US
return to Mexico due to poor health, as an explanation for the Hispanic health paradox in …

Objective. We explore how the health, as measured by physical growth, of children in
Guatemalan Maya families is impacted by immigration to the United States. Methods. We …

Latino immigrants, particularly Mexican, have some health advantages over US-born
Mexicans and Whites. Because of their lower socioeconomic status, this phenomenon has …