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June 2008, Vol 98, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 968
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.134890

LETTER

BATES ET AL. RESPOND

Lisa M. Bates, SD, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP, Margarita Alegría, PhD and Nancy Krieger, PhD

Lisa M. Bates is with the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Nancy Krieger are with the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Margarita Alegría is with the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lisa M. Bates, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: lb2290@columbia.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.

We appreciate Oza-Frank and Narayan’s interest in our article. We are pleased they agree with our conclusions regarding the need for data and analyses that are adequately powered and disaggregated to account for the heterogeneity of US immigrant populations. Their comments provide an opportunity to highlight some of the important challenges in immigrant health research that we raised in our article.

We used several approaches to deal with the issue of immigrant heterogeneity. First, we stratified by country of origin to the extent sample sizes permitted; the size and composition of the National Latino and Asian American Survey allowed the . . . [Full Text]






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