Rurality And Ethnicity In Adolescent Physical Illness: Are Children Of The Growing Rural Latino Population At Excess Health Risk
Author: Wickrama, K.A.S.
Date Published: 2007
This study's objectives are to investigate potential additive and multiplicative influences of rurality and race/ethnicity on chronic physical illness in a nationally representative sample of youth; and examine intra-Latino processes using a Latino sub sample. Specifically we examine how rurality and individual pyschosocial process refelected by acculturaltation proxies to generational status and use of the English languge at home. Link to chonic physical illness of Latino youth. Finally, we examine wheter these association and the levels of chronic illness differ across Latino subgroups. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17565523
Date Published: 2007
This study's objectives are to investigate potential additive and multiplicative influences of rurality and race/ethnicity on chronic physical illness in a nationally representative sample of youth; and examine intra-Latino processes using a Latino sub sample. Specifically we examine how rurality and individual pyschosocial process refelected by acculturaltation proxies to generational status and use of the English languge at home. Link to chonic physical illness of Latino youth. Finally, we examine wheter these association and the levels of chronic illness differ across Latino subgroups. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17565523
