Do post-migration perceptions of social mobility matter for Latino immigrant health?

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 101; pp. 94 - 106
• Main Authors: Alcántara, Carmela, Chen, Chih-Nan, Alegría, Margarita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2014; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Cuba - ethnology; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - ethnology; Diagnostic Self Evaluation; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology; Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data; Emigration and Immigration - statistics & numerical data; Equity; Female; Health; Health care; Health care access; Health disparities; Health Problems; Health Status Disparities; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic or Latino - psychology; Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data; Hispanics; Humans; Immigrants; Latin American Cultural Groups; Major depressive episode; Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Mexico - ethnology; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Mood disorders; Physical health; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Puerto Rican Americans; Puerto Rico - ethnology; Social Class; Social Mobility; Social Status; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomic status; Subjective social status; U.S.A; United States; Upward mobility; USA; Young Adult; United States; North America; America; Cuba; Mexico; Puerto Rico; United States > US; USA; Subjective social status; Socioeconomic status; Physical health; Major depressive episode; Hispanic; Immigrants; Health disparities; Mood disorder; Human; Social perception; Immigrant; Migration; Depression; Latinamerican; Ethnic group; Social mobility; Social status; Social medicine; Social aspect; Public health; Inequality

Latino immigrants exhibit health declines with increasing duration in the United States, which some attribute to a loss in social status after migration or downward social mobility. Yet, research into the distribution of perceived social mobility and patterned associations to Latino health is sparse...