{"id":1205,"date":"2014-06-10T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2014-06-10T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:21:21","slug":"differences-between-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/hot-off-the-press\/differences-between-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in self-rated congitive disability between first and second generation immigrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/immigrant_children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1208\" alt=\"immigrant_children\" src=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/immigrant_children.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/immigrant_children.jpg 640w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/06\/immigrant_children-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although there is some international ambiguity, studies in the US show more frequently a self-reported health advantage among immigrants. In<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0571-9\"> study we just published<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/profiles\/emma-k-benn\">Emma KT Benn<\/a> uses a method that aims to reduce selection bias when studying immigrant populations: children who were born outside the US and immigrated with their foreign-born parents were compared to children who were born in the US by foreign-born parents. This method essentially matches the nativity of the parents and ensures that both groups represent the offspring of a selective minority of the population of foreign born parents who immigrated to the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Data taken from the 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/acs\/www\/\">American Community Survey <\/a>was used, with a total of 77,324 children between 5 and 17 years of age. Of those, 23.4% were foreign-born children. Self-reported cognitive disability was reported in 1.7% of the sample. There was a higher prevalence of unfavourable outcome among US-born group. This difference remained even after accounting for important covariates, such as age-group, sex, race\/ethnicity, household language, single-parent household and household income. Further analysis revealed that this advantage was only evident among economically disadvantaged children, which presents an interesting parad0x.<\/p>\n<p>The author concludes that future research should examine the contribution of the accumulation of poverty over time to the relationship between nativity and children&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/felixmontino\/4105194439\/in\/photolist-7fLcht-4Win59-7mwezf-7ctQTZ-csuUpy-7vbDLR-4WEsfL-HiC5s-9gbEB-61T9dD-6s2W9o-7VdDxk-aaThYm-eCid1-5BPBNv-BmVWw-61WDuw-6emVVY-g6fXxm-39jFz-7PdCSM-8uHtG2-4ijQaB-79YB4-7FWXqh-93z1DE-nxyZb5-6T9kwc-7ufvih-8uHtCp-66zzgf-47doMj-ehU44-8BDiCZ-5Lhbzk-6emXr5-bp5JUu-87p9e1-77tbUt-ihZso-N5d4P-6iD3MB-a7dDai-3MZj-fPaVWx-dSLRr4-8qZDrT-mBmNr-64gotj-8CuAkM\">*picture credit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; Although there is some international ambiguity, studies in the US show more frequently a self-reported health advantage among immigrants. In study we just published, Emma KT Benn uses a method that aims to reduce selection bias when studying immigrant populations: children who were born outside the US and immigrated with their foreign-born parents were&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/hot-off-the-press\/differences-between-first\/\" title=\"Read Differences in self-rated congitive disability between first and second generation immigrant children\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,15],"tags":[56,149,233,259,271,568,578,806],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","category-methodology","tag-american-community-survey","tag-child-health","tag-disparities-in-health","tag-emma-benn","tag-epidemiology","tag-methods","tag-migration-and-health","tag-social-inequality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}