Acculturation and Latino health in the United States: a review of the literature and its sociopolitical context.

By M. Lara, Christina Gamboa, M. I. Kahramanian, L. Morales, David Hayes Bautista. Annual Review of Public Health, 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery. (2013, result): “In contrast, and consistent with the findings of other studies (Lara et al. 2005; Arias 2010; Castro et al. 2010), both the Hispanic and foreign-born measures are negatively associated with health outcomes.”
• Cancer statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2012 (2012, background): “The effects of acculturation are complex and can be associated with both positive and negative influences on health.(7) Among Hispanic immigrants to the United States, assimilation may result in improved access to health care and preventive services, as well as the adoption of unhealthy behaviors (e”
• Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States (2011, positive): “There exists a large epidemiological body of literature documenting social disparities in health related to Latino migrant workers (Lara et al. 2004; Zsembik and Fennell 2005; Organista 2007; Barr 2008; Nandi et al. 2008).”
• Acculturation-Related Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Among Three Generations of Hispanic Adolescents (2013, result): “Studies that have examined the relationship between acculturative stressors and related outcomes in adolescents, however, have produced mixed results (Lara et al., 2005).”
• Acculturation and physical activity among immigrants: a systematic review (2012, background): “Thus, acculturation is often described as the process by which immigrants adopt the attitudes, values, customs, beliefs, behaviors, and the lifestyles of a new culture and the dominant society (Abraido-Lanza et al. 2006; Lara et al. 2005).”
• CAN'T BUY ME WHITENESS (2008, result): “Numerous studies find that contrary to expectations, low-SES Latinos do not experience poor birth outcomes ~Hazuda et al., 1988; Scribner and Dwyer, 1989; Sorlie et al., 1993; Wei et al., 1996; Abraído-Lanza et al., 1999; Gould et al., 2003; Lara et al., 2005; Cho et al., 2004!.”