Biobehavioral Aspects of Health and Aging Among People of Mexican Origin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12797263 |
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| Authors | Keith E Whitfield (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, corresponding author), Jacqueline L Angel (0000-0001-7870-6685, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA), Rebeca Wong (0000-0001-7287-0660, University of Texas at Galveston, TX, USA) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1019-1026 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Aging and Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-6887 • E-ISSN: 0898-2643 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0898264311423370 |
| PMID | 21948768 |
| PMCID | PMC3296559 |
| OpenAlex | W2017497262 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
There is a growing interest in developing a deeper level of understanding of the complex phenomena that make up the aging process. Efforts to pursue questions using a multivariate and ecologically valid approaches that include biological and behavioral factors have led to significant advances in our knowledge. This special issue presents a collection of papers that represent this "biobehavioral" perspective. Little is known concerning the biobehavioral aspects of Hispanic health and there is a dearth of systematic study of how individual biological factors interact with the environmental and cultural factors to affect health outcomes among the swiftly growing older population of Mexican origin, a subgroup of older minorities that exhibits unique morbidity and mortality patterns. The group of papers here represents important contributions to understanding the health consequences in later life for individuals of Mexican descent and addresses several areas of interest including but not limited to diabetes, cognitive impairment, metabolic syndrome, frailty, socio-economic status and contextual factors that impact health. The papers presented here use interesting and useful transdisciplinary approaches that increase our knowledge of health processes in older people of Mexican descent. This special issue also provides excellent examples of the critical linkages between biological variables broadly defined and traditional social stratification, social inequalities, and social justice and the ways in which they interact. The papers taken together suggest that the processes involved in aging and health are complex, particularly in people of Mexican descent, and requires the understanding of mechanisms at multiple causes and levels of analysis
Affect (linguistics · Cognition · Perspective (graphical · Psychiatry · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gerontology
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Aging, Migration, and Mortality
Age at Migration, Social Connections, and Well-Being among Elderly Hispanics
Shorter Stay, Longer Life
Nativity and Self-Assessed Health among Pre-Retirement Age Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites
Risk factors for early adolescent drug use in four ethnic and racial groups
Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk Profiles
Acculturation and alcohol consumption among Mexican Americans
Minority Group Status and Healthful Aging
The Health of Older Mexican Americans in the Long Run
Paradox lost
Using anthropometric indicators for Mexicans in the United States and Mexico to understand the selection of migrants and the “hispanic paradox”
Social psychological contributions to the decade of the brain
Allostatic Load Among Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, and People of Mexican Origin
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