PMH Members in the News

INTEGRATING SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INTO IMMIGRANT HEALTH RESEARCH: A CROSS-NATIONAL FRAMEWORK

PMH members Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Emma V. Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes, and Joanna Almeida have published a paper in a new Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine.

SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION: PLACE, MIGRATION AND HEALTH

PMH members Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Joanna Almeida have co-edited a Special Issue (Dec 2012) of Social Science & Medicine

IMMIGRANT STATUS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING

Immigrant status and cognitive functioning in late-life: An examination of gender variations in the healthy immigrant effect

ETHNIC DENSITY EFFECTS ON HEALTH AND EXPERIENCED RACISM AMONG CARIBBEAN PEOPLE

Researchers including PMH member Laia Bécares conducted a new cross-national study that examined how

SUBSTANCE USE ACROSS GENERATION AND TIME IN THE US

Although immigrant youth have lower rates of substance use than US born youth, whether substance use varies by generation and time in the US is unclear.

DOES WHITENESS MATTER FOR ARAB AMERICANS?

Arab Americans in the United States are officially classified as white, yet they subjectively identify in multiple ways.

IMPACT OF RACIAL IDENTITY TENSIONS

PMH member Edna Viruell-Fuentes, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, published a new study in a

ACCULTURATION IN MUSLIM YOUTH

Muslim youth in the U.S. are understudied, yet face major challenges in a post 9/11 world, according to PMH member Taqi Tirmazi.

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