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Children of immigrants [electronic resource] : 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.

Contributor(s): Hernandez, Donald J | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999Description: x, 660 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Children of immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions | Children of immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions | Children of immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.7/086/91 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.