Should "acculturation" be a variable in health research? A critical review of research on US Hispanics.

By L. Hunt, Suzanne D. Schneider, Brendon Comer. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2004

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The Structure of Cultural Identity in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Emerging Adults (2007, background): “Indeed, the acculturation literature has been criticized for a lack of appropriate operational definitions (Hunt, Schneider, & Comer, 2004 ) and for not using the same operational definitions across studies (Rudmin, 2003 ).”
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders across Latino subgroups in the United States. (2007, background): “, greater job demands) influencing health outcomes.(54) Recent studies propose English-language proficiency as an indicator of loss of the values often associated with Latino culture that positively influence psychiatric health, such as strong family and social support.”
More than culture: structural racism, intersectionality theory, and immigrant health. (2012, background): “A core criticism highlighted by some scholars is that employing acculturation as the central concept in the examination of immigrant health outcomes in the United States ignores the socio-historical contexts of migration, the racialization of contemporary immigrants, and the role these factors play ”
Acculturation and mental health: Current findings and recommendations for future research (2007, background): “In a review on acculturation in Hispanics/Latino Amerians (Latino), Hunt et al. (2004) found that only 8% of articles ncluded a definition of culture.”