Understanding the Hispanic paradox.

By L. Franzini, J. Ribble, A. Keddie. Ethnicity & Disease, 2001

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Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 16256. (2010, unknown): “This is often referred to as the “Hispanic Paradox” (Franzini, Ribble, and Keddie, 2001).”
Do healthy behaviors decline with greater acculturation? Implications for the Latino mortality paradox. (2005, background): “N IH -PA Author M anuscript N IH -PA Author M anuscript N IH -PA Author M anuscript Conclusion As Franzini et al. (2001) noted, “If reasons [for the paradox] are largely cultural, the paradox will only exist for as long as a large percentage of Hispanics remain culturally distinct from the rest of…”
Cancer statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2012 (2012, background): “The Hispanic survival paradox (high rates of survival despite unfavorable demographic and prognostic indicators) may be partly due to a selectively healthy immigrant population and return migration, although these biases do not appear to wholly explain this phenomenon.(35,36) In contrast, the 5-year”
CAN'T BUY ME WHITENESS (2008, background): “Described as a paradoxical and an interesting dilemma ~Franzini et al., 2001!, this phenomenon is documented most consistently for Mexican-born immigrants in the United States, and has been observed among Central and South Americans.”