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is home to more immigrants to the U.S. than any other country.
The background and health of Mexican-born migrants will imprint
on the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
- Mid- and late-life health in Mexico is shaped
by an unusual interaction between current chronic disease risks
and residual effects of infectious diseases in early life. Does
this process yield high levels of chronic disease, symptoms, and
disability in old age?
- Despite low levels of education and high rates
of unhealthy behaviors, Mexican-born migrants appear to have a
health advantage over Mexican-Americans.
- Are Mexican migrants positively selected for
good health from a population in relatively poor health? The seeming
“Hispanic paradox” can only be understood by describing
health dynamics in the “sending” population.
- Little is known about health transitions in
a population characterized by life-long economic disparities,
strategic migration behaviors, and limited capital markets.
- Over time, does migration to the U.S. improve
the living conditions & health of migrants, their elderly
parents, or whole families?
- examine the aging processes and its
disease and disability burden in a large representative panel
of older Mexicans;
- evaluate the effects of individual behaviors,
early life circumstances, migration and economic history, community
characteristics, and family transfer systems on multiple health
outcomes;
- compare the health dynamics of older Mexicans
with comparably aged Mexican-born migrants in the U.S. and second
generation Mexican-American using similar data from the U.S. population
(for example the biennial Health and Retirement Study HRS/AHEAD
and the NHANES III) to assess the durability of the migrant health
advantage;
- assess the health of all components of the
population from which migrants are selectively recruited: Mexican-born
migrants living in the US, migrants who return to Mexico after
various length of time in the U.S., and Mexicans with no
residential
history in the U.S.; and,
- consider the ways in
which intergenerational transfer systems affect old-age health
dynamics in a country where migration is commonplace and remittances
may repay prior investments or insure against uncertainty in old
age.
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