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Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox
dc.contributor.authorPalloni, Albertoen_US
dc.contributor.authorMorenoff, Jeffrey D.en_US
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dc.date.issued2001-12en_US
dc.identifier.citationPALLONI, ALBERTO; MORENOFF, JEFFREY D. (2001). "Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954(1 POPULATION HEALTH AND AGING: STRENGTHENING THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY ): 140-174. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73920>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0077-8923en_US
dc.identifier.issn1749-6632en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73920
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dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses problems that are common to both the epidemiologic risk-factor approach and the demographic variable-based approach to studying population health. We argue that there is a shared reluctance to move away from a narrow variable-based thinking that pervades both disciplines, and a tendency to reify the multivariate linear procedures employed in both disciplines. In particular, we concentrate on the difficulties generated by classical variable-based approaches that are especially striking when one neglects selection processes and the use of strategies to minimize its effects. We illustrate these difficulties in terms of the so-called “Hispanic Paradox”, which refers to comparative health advantages that some Hispanic groups appear to have. We find that much of what is conceived by demographers and epidemiologists as a paradox may not be paradoxical at all.en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights2001 New York Academy of Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.otherHispanic Paradoxen_US
dc.subject.otherDemographic Approachen_US
dc.subject.otherEpidemiologic Approachen_US
dc.titleInterpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradoxen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelScience (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumPopulation Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherCenter for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USAen_US
dc.identifier.pmid11797855en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73920/1/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02751.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02751.xen_US
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