Defining the "Community": Applying Ethnographic Methods for a Latino Immigrant Health Intervention
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Latino Immigrant Children’s Health: Effects of Sociodemographic Variables and of a Preventive Intervention Program
The number of Latino immigrant children is expanding rapidly, and the factors that affect their health are multiple and interlinked. We therefore propose to describe the sociodemographic characteristics of a mostly Dominican immigrant population, to examine to what extent immigrant status and other factors play a role in determining measures of their children’s health and well-being, and finall...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human Organization
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0018-7259,1938-3525
DOI: 10.17730/humo.74.1.6561p4u727582850