Vargas Edward D, Ybarra Vickie D
Center for Women's Health and Health Disparities Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, IRP, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, MSC02 1645, 1 University of New Mexico, 1909 Las Lomas NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2017 Aug;19(4):913-920. doi: 10.1007/s10903-016-0463-6.
We examine Latino citizen children in mixed-status families and how their physical health status compares to their U.S. citizen, co-ethnic counterparts. We also examine Latino parents' perceptions of state immigration policy and its implications for child health status. Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (n = 1493), we estimate a series of multivariate ordered logistic regression models with mixed-status family and perceptions of state immigration policy as primary predictors. We find that mixed-status families report worse physical health for their children as compared to their U.S. citizen co-ethnics. We also find that parental perceptions of their states' immigration status further exacerbate health disparities between families. These findings have implications for scholars and policy makers interested in immigrant health, family wellbeing, and health disparities in complex family structures. They contribute to the scholarship on Latino child health and on the erosion of the Latino immigrant health advantage.
我们研究了混合身份家庭中的拉丁裔公民儿童，以及他们的身体健康状况与美国公民、同种族的同龄人相比如何。我们还研究了拉丁裔父母对州移民政策的看法及其对儿童健康状况的影响。利用2015年拉丁裔全国健康与移民调查（n = 1493），我们估计了一系列多变量有序逻辑回归模型，将混合身份家庭和对州移民政策的看法作为主要预测因素。我们发现，与美国公民同种族的家庭相比，混合身份家庭报告其子女的身体健康状况较差。我们还发现，父母对其所在州移民状况的看法进一步加剧了家庭之间的健康差距。这些发现对关注移民健康、家庭福祉以及复杂家庭结构中健康差距的学者和政策制定者具有启示意义。它们为关于拉丁裔儿童健康以及拉丁裔移民健康优势丧失的学术研究做出了贡献。
