Dear Colleagues
Attached some links from the latest edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Free access to full text articles on the site i believe ends tommorrow (31 Jan)
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
1 February 2002; Vol. 92, No. 2 American Journal of Public Health
http://www.ajph.org/content/vol92/issue2/index.shtml
Poverty, Family Process, and the Mental Health of Immigrant Children in
Canada
Am J Public Health 2002;92 220-227
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/2/220
Morton Beiser, MD FRCPC, Feng Hou, PhD, Ilene Hyman, PhD and
Michel Tousignant, PhD
Morton Beiser, Feng Hou, and Ilene Hyman are with the Culture, Community, and Health
Studies Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and the Department of
Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Michel Tousignant is with the Laboratoire de recherche en écologie humaine et sociale,
Université de Québec a Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Morton Beiser, MD, FRCPC, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Clarke site, 250
College St, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada (e-mail: [log in to unmask]).
Objectives. This study examined the differential effects of poverty on the mental health of foreign-born children, Canadian-born
children of immigrant parents, and children of nonimmigrant parents.
Methods. Secondary analysis of data from a national Canadian study of children between 4 and 11 years of age was
conducted.
Results. Compared with their receiving-society counterparts, foreign-born children were more than twice as likely to live in
poor families, but they had lower levels of emotional and behavioral problems. The effect of poverty on children's mental health
among long-term immigrant and receiving-society families was indirect and primarily mediated by single-parent status, ineffective
parenting, parental depression, and family dysfunction. In comparison, the mental health effect of poverty among foreign-born
children could not be explained by the disadvantages that poor families often suffer.
Conclusions. Poverty may represent a transient and inevitable part of the resettlement process for new immigrant families. For
long-stay immigrant and receiving-society families, however, poverty probably is not part of an unfolding process; instead, it is
the nadir of a cycle of disadvantage.
LETTERS
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REVISITING RACE/ETHNICITY AS A VARIABLE IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Nigel Mark Thomas
Am J Public Health 2002;92 156
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/92/2/156
REVISITING RACE/ETHNICITY AS A VARIABLE IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Raj Bhopal
Am J Public Health 2002;92 156-157
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/92/2/156-a
CHANGING TO THE 2000 STANDARD MILLION
Donna L. Hoyert and Robert N. Anderson
Am J Public Health 2002;92 157
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/92/2/157
KRIEGER AND WILLIAMS RESPOND
Nancy Krieger and David R. Williams
Am J Public Health 2002;92 157-158
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/92/2/157-a
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