There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Background 258 million people reside outside their country of birth; however, to date no
global systematic reviews or meta-analyses of mortality data for these international migrants …

In this review, the authors provide an approach to the study of health disparities in the US
Latino population and evaluate the evidence, using mortality rates for discrete medical …

Addressing health disparities has been a national challenge for decades. The National
Institutes of Health–sponsored Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities are the …

This paper identifies the overarching patterns of immigrant health in the US. Most studies
indicate that foreign-born individuals are in better health than native-born Americans …

Objectives. We investigated ethnic differences in allostatic load in a population-based
sample of adults living in Texas City, TX, and assessed the effects of nativity and …

This chapter provides an update to our earlier review on the Hispanic paradox in adult
mortality (Markides and Eschbach 2005). We focus primarily on manuscripts published …

Although those identifying as “Hispanic or Latino” experience lower adult mortality than the
more socioeconomically advantaged non-Hispanic white population, the ethnic category …

Background Latinos born in the US, 36 million, comprise 65% of all US Latinos. Yet their
cancer experience is nearly always analyzed together with their foreign-born counterparts …

A large body of research on the “Healthy Immigrant Effect”(or “Paradox”) has reported an
immigrant mortality advantage. However, other studies do not find such significant effects …