Mexican Children of Immigrants Program

墨西哥移民儿童计划

• 批准号: 8150952
• 负责人: NANCY S LANDALE
• 金额: $ 75.05万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-29 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8150952
• 关键词: Mexican; Children; Immigrants; Program

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mexican Children of Immigrants Program project is composed of three interrelated research projects that assess how contexts affect health and health care access among Mexican children of immigrants. Together, the three projects will examine the effects of the multiple contexts within which children live: from the proximate context of the family to the intermediate contexts of schools and neighborhoods to the more distal contexts of the community, state, and nation. The project involves a mixed group of senior- and mid- level researchers from three departments at The Pennsylvania State University and a senior scholar from University of California at Irvine. It also includes a mentoring component that will involve two junior minority scholars who hold faculty appointments at The Pennsylvania State University and a dissemination component that is based on collaborative arrangements with the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. The program project has four overarching objectives: (1) to build an interdependent team of researchers by fostering the exchange of ideas, methods, and data in order to make significant advances in the area of immigrant health; (2) to assess interethnic differences (Mexican-American children compared with non-Hispanic black and white children) and intra-ethnic differences (variations among Mexican- American children by parental nativity, level of assimilation and legal status) with respect to health-related outcomes, exposures to various contexts, and the association of contexts with health-related outcomes; (3) to develop and implement new methods for quantifying and adjusting for the effects of immigration and emigration selection bias to better interpret findings on the distinctiveness of Mexican children of immigrants and immigrant assimilation; and (4) to disseminate research findings as broadly as possible to the academic community and to nonacademic policymakers and other stakeholders. In addition to the three research projects, two service cores are proposed to facilitate these aims, the Administration and Dissemination Core and the Migration Methodology Core. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will examine the roles of family, school and neighborhood contexts in Mexican-origin children's health care and health. Scientific knowledge of the factors that place Mexican children at risk of physical, behavioral, and developmental disorders is limited. The proposed research will produce essential knowledge for the development of sound public policies and interventions to reduce health disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）：墨西哥移民儿童方案项目由三个相互关联的研究项目组成，评估环境如何影响墨西哥移民儿童的健康和医疗保健机会。这三个项目将共同研究儿童所处的多种环境的影响：从家庭的近处环境到学校和社区的中间环境，再到社区、州和民族的远处环境。该项目涉及来自宾夕法尼亚州立大学三个系的高级和中级研究人员和来自加州大学欧文分校的高级学者的混合小组。它还包括一个指导部分，将涉及两名在宾夕法尼亚州立大学担任教职的年轻少数民族学者，以及一个传播部分，该部分基于与华盛顿特区移民政策研究所的合作安排。该方案项目有四个总体目标：(1)通过促进思想、方法和数据的交流，建立一个相互依存的研究团队，以便在移民健康领域取得重大进展；(2)评估种族间差异（墨西哥裔美国儿童与非西班牙裔黑人和白人儿童的比较）和种族内差异（墨西哥裔美国儿童因父母出生、同化水平和法律地位而存在的差异）在健康相关结果、各种环境暴露以及环境与健康相关结果的关联方面的差异；(3)开发和实施量化和调整移民和移民选择偏见影响的新方法，以更好地解释有关墨西哥移民子女的独特性和移民同化的研究结果；(4)向学术界、非学术界的政策制定者和其他利益相关者尽可能广泛地传播研究成果。除了上述三个研究项目外，我们还提出了两个服务核心，即管理和传播核心和迁移方法核心，以促进这些目标的实现。