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Felipe González Castro, MSW, PhD, Associate Editor, AJPH

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The growing cultural diversity within contemporary American society presents new challenges for understanding the effects of environmental, cultural, and acculturative factors on the health of Americans. This diversity harkens the need to expand existing theories, models, and methods; certain prior approaches may no longer suffice. Today, new and changing ethnic, youth, and popular cultures have embroidered distinct features onto the cultural tapestry of American society. By contrast, such cultural innovations have also introduced significant public health challenges: growing rates of obesity among children of immigrants, controversies over the contributions of undocumented immigrants, threats of terrorism against American society, and more . . . [Full Text]