Children of immigrants : health, adjustment, and public assistance / Donald J. Hernandez, editor ; Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hernandez, Donald J.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.

Children of immigrants--Health and hygiene--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families. The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents.

Contents:

Children of immigrants : health, adjustment, and public assistance / Donald J. Hernandez

Socioeconomic and demographic risk factors and resources among children in immigrant and native-born families : 1910, 1960, and 1990 / Donald J. Hernandez and Katherine Darke

Access to health insurance and health care for children in immigrant families / E. Richard Brown, Roberta Wyn, Hongjian Yu, Abel Valenzuela, and Liane Dong

The health and nutritional status of immigrant Hispanic children : analyses of the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey / Fernando S. Mendoza and Lori Beth Dixon

Immigration and infant health : birth outcomes of immigrant and native-born women / Nancy S. Landale, R.S. Oropesa, and Bridget K. Gorman

The health status and risk behaviors of adolescents in immigrant families / Kathleen Mullan Harris

Educational profile of 3- to 8-year-old children of immigrants / Christine Winquist Nord and James A. Griffin

Psychological well-being and educational achievement among immigrant youth / Grace Kao

Passages to adulthood : the adaptation of children of immigrants in Southern California / Rubén G. Rumbaut

Receipt of public assistance by Mexican American and Cuban American children in native and immigrant families / Sandra L. Hofferth

Receipt of public assistance by immigrant children and their families : evidence from the survey of income and program participation / Peter David Brandon

Children in immigrant and nonimmigrant farmworker families : findings from the National Agricultural Workers survey / Richard Mines.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780309172974

0309172977

9780309519557

0309519551

9780585193649

0585193649

OCLC:

559666139