Disability and active life expectancy of older U.S.- and foreign-born Mexican Americans

Karl Eschbach; Soham Al-Snih; Kyriakos S. Markides; James S. Goodwin

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-47208-9_4

Disability and active life expectancy of older U.S.- and foreign-born Mexican Americans

Karl Eschbach, Soham Al-Snih, Kyriakos S. Markides, James S. Goodwin

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It has long been recognized that nativity status may have a strong relationship to health (Marmot, Adelstein, and Bulusu, 1984; Kasl and Berkman, 1983). Evidence from United States data sources shows that immigrants have generally lower agespecific mortality than members of the same ethnic group born in the United States (Singh and Miller, 2004; Singh and Siahpush, 2001, 2002). This relationship may come about in part because international migration is selected on good health, and return migration on poor health (Palloni and Morenoff, 2004). There is also some evidence that in the U.S. and other settings immigrant/native differentials in health arise because of differences in socio-cultural characteristics and health-related behaviors (Marmot and Syme, 1976; Antecol and Bedard, 2006).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Health of Aging Hispanics
Subtitle of host publication	The Mexican-Origin Population
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	40-49
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	0387472061, 9780387472065
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-47208-9_4
State	Published - 2007

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