Children of immigrants : 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.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hernandez, Donald J.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 660 p. :; ill.

Table of 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 / Ruben 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.