Mexican Children of Immigrants Program

墨西哥移民儿童计划

• 批准号: 8017063
• 负责人: NANCY S LANDALE
• 金额: $ 86.86万
• 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 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8017063
• 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）：墨西哥移民儿童计划项目由三个相互关联的研究项目组成，这些项目评估背景如何影响墨西哥移民儿童的健康和医疗保健获取情况。这三个项目将共同研究儿童生活的多种环境的影响：从家庭的邻近环境到学校和社区的中间环境，再到社区、州和国家的更远的环境。该项目由来自宾夕法尼亚州立大学三个系的高级和中级研究人员以及来自加州大学欧文分校的高级学者组成。它还包括一个指导部分，其中包括两名在宾夕法尼亚州立大学任教的初级少数族裔学者，以及一个基于与华盛顿特区移民政策研究所合作安排的传播部分。该计划项目有四个总体目标：（1）通过促进思想、方法和数据的交流，建立一个相互依赖的研究团队，以便在移民健康领域取得重大进展； (2) 评估健康方面的种族间差异（墨西哥裔美国儿童与非西班牙裔黑人和白人儿童相比）和种族内差异（墨西哥裔美国儿童因父母出生地、同化程度和法律地位而存在的差异）相关结果、接触各种环境以及环境与健康相关结果的关联； (3) 制定和实施新的方法来量化和调整移民和移民选择偏差的影响，以更好地解释墨西哥移民儿童的独特性和移民同化的研究结果； (4) 尽可能广泛地向学术界、非学术决策者和其他利益相关者传播研究成果。除了三个研究项目之外，还提出了两个服务核心来促进这些目标，即管理和传播核心以及迁移方法核心。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将研究家庭、学校和社区环境在墨西哥裔儿童的医疗保健和健康中的作用。关于导致墨西哥儿童面临身体、行为和发育障碍风险的因素的科学知识有限。拟议的研究将为制定健全的公共政策和干预措施以减少健康差距提供必要的知识。