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January 2007, Vol 97, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 11-12
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.103911

EDITORIAL

Immigration and Mental Health: Diverse Findings in Asian, Black, and Latino Populations

David T. Takeuchi, PhD, Margarita Alegría, PhD, James S. Jackson, PhD and David R. Williams, PhD

David T. Takeuchi is with the University of Washington, Seattle. Margarita Alegría is with the Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass, and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. James S. Jackson and David R. Williams are with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. David R. Williams is also with the Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to David T. Takeuchi, PhD, University of Washington, Box 354900, 410115th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 (e-mail: dt5@u.washington.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Immigration has deeply transformed the racial and ethnic composition of the United States. Over the past 3 decades, the immigration of people from Mexico and South American and Latin American countries has resulted in Latinos becoming the largest ethnic minority population, totaling 12.5% of the US population. Although Asian Americans do not match the population size of Latinos, they have grown at the fastest rate of any major racial category and make up nearly 4% of the US population. Black immigrants have not received the same attention as Latino or Asian immigrants, but they contribute significantly to an increasingly diversified . . . [Full Text]


   DO IMMIGRANTS HAVE POORER MENTAL HEALTH THAN NONIMMIGRANTS?
 

   DO IMMIGRANTS HAVE BETTER MENTAL HEALTH THAN NONIMMIGRANTS?
 

   COLLABORATIVE PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES
 

   PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH FORUM
 

   FUTURE RESEARCH
 





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