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Put simply, public health has a bold mission: “protecting health and saving lives— millions at a time.” In medical fields, clinicians treat diseases or injuries, one patient at a time. But in public health, we prevent disease and injury. As researchers, practitioners and educators, we work with communities and populations. We identify causes of disease and disability, and we implement largescale solutions. For example, instead of treating a gun wound, we identify causes of gun violence and develop interventions. Instead of treating premature or low birth-weight babies, we investigate the factors at work and we develop programs to keep babies healthy. Instead of prescribing medication for high blood pressure, we examine the links between obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and. | Demographic Research a free expedited online journal of peer-reviewed research and commentary in the population sciences published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Konrad-Zuse Str. 1 D-18057 Rostock GERMANY www.demographic-research.org DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VOLUME 25 ARTICLE 25 PAGES 783-818 PUBLISHED 8 DECEMBER 2011 http www.demographic-research.org Volumes Vol25 25 DOI 10.4054 DemRes.2011.25.25 Research Article Assimilation and emerging health disparities among new generations of U.S. children Erin R. Hamilton Jodi Berger Cardoso Robert A. Hummer Yolanda C. Padilla 2011 Erin R. Hamilton et al. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany which permits use reproduction distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes provided the original author s and source are given credit. See http creativecommons.org licenses by-nc 2.0 de Table of Contents Introduction 1 784 2 Research on the health of children of immigrants 785 2.1 Health assimilation 786 2.2 Explanations for group differences in child health 787 2.2.1 Risk factors 787 2.2.2 Protective factors 788 2.2.3 Risk and protective factors at the neighborhood level 788 3 Data and methods 789 3.1 Data 789 3.2 Measures 790 3.3 Methods 793 4 Results 794 4.1 Descriptive results 794 4.2 Multivariate results 800 5 Discussion 806 5.1 Patterns of health assimilation 806 5.2 Explanations for health assimilation 807 5.3 Conclusions 812 6 Acknowledgements 812 References 813 Demographic Research Volume 25 Article 25 Research Article Assimilation and emerging health disparities among new generations of U.S. children Erin R. Hamilton1 Jodi Berger Cardoso2 Robert A. Hummer3 Yolanda C. Padilla4 Abstract This article shows that the prevalence of four common child health conditions increases across generations from first-generation immigrant children to second-generation U.S.-born children of immigrants to third-and-higher-generation .
