The Healthy Immigrant Effect
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Vol. 159 (3) , 295-297
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.159.3.295
Abstract
In 1986, Markides and Coreil stated that “ . . . it can be concluded with some certainty that the health status of Hispanics in the Southwest is much more similKeywords
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