Pathways and Correlates Connecting Latinos' Mental Health With Exposure to the United States

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 99; no. 12; pp. 2247 - 2254
• Main Authors: Cook, Benjamin, Alegria, Margarita, Lin, Julia Y, Guo, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Am Public Health Assoc 01.12.2009; American Public Health Association
• Subjects: Acculturation; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anxiety disorders; Biological and medical sciences; Citizenship; Culture; Economic opportunities; Education; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology; Female; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic Americans - psychology; Hispanic people; Humans; Hypotheses; Immigrants; Immigration; Male; Marital status; Medical sciences; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental Health; Mental health care; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Noncitizens; Psychopathology; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Research and Practice; Time Factors; United States - epidemiology; Variables; Young Adult; United States; North America; America; United States > US; Human; Exposure; Latinamerican; Ethnic group; Public health; Mental health

We examined potential pathways by which time in the United States may relate to differences in the predicted probability of past-year psychiatric disorder among Latino immigrants as compared with US-born Latinos. We estimated predicted probabilities of psychiatric disorder for US-born and immigrant...