Children of immigrants health, adjustment, and public assistance / [electronic resource] : Donald J. Hernandez, editor ; Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. - Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999. - x, 660 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

Children of immigrants : health, adjustment, and public assistance / Socioeconomic and demographic risk factors and resources among children in immigrant and native-born families : 1910, 1960, and 1990 / Access to health insurance and health care for children in immigrant families / The health and nutritional status of immigrant Hispanic children : analyses of the Hispanic health and nutrition examination survey / Immigration and infant health : birth outcomes of immigrant and native-born women / The health status and risk behaviors of adolescents in immigrant families / Educational profile of 3- to 8-year-old children of immigrants / Psychological well-being and educational achievement among immigrant youth / Passages to adulthood : the adaptation of children of immigrants in Southern California / Receipt of public assistance by Mexican American and Cuban American children in native and immigrant families / Receipt of public assistance by immigrant children and their families : evidence from the survey of income and program participation / Peter David Brandon -- Children in immigrant and nonimmigrant farmworker families : findings from the National Agricultural Workers survey / Richard Mines. Donald J. Hernandez -- Donald J. Hernandez and Katherine Darke -- E. Richard Brown, Roberta Wyn, Hongjian Yu, Abel Valenzuela, and Liane Dong -- Fernando S. Mendoza and Lori Beth Dixon -- Nancy S. Landale, R.S. Oropesa, and Bridget K. Gorman -- Kathleen Mullan Harris -- Christine Winquist Nord and James A. Griffin -- Grace Kao -- Ruben G. Rumbaut -- Sandra L. Hofferth --


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780309519557 (electronic bk.)




Children of immigrants--Social conditions.--United States
Children of immigrants--Economic conditions.--United States
Children of immigrants--Health and hygiene--United States.


Electronic books.

HV741 / .C536157 1999

362.7/086/91