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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.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HV741.C536157 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Child health services.
- Children.
- Social history.
- Child Health Services.
- Child.
- Emigration and Immigration.
- Public Assistance--economics.
- Social Conditions.
- United States.
- children (people by age group).
- social history.
- Children of immigrants--Economic conditions.
- Children of immigrants--Health and hygiene.
- Children of immigrants--Social conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Child Health Services.
- Child.
- Emigration and Immigration.
- Public Assistance--economics.
- Social Conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 666 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©1999.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0309065453
- 9780309065450
- OCLC:
- 45221551
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