Factors associated with CES-D depression among Mexican Americans living on and off the U.S.–Mexico border are examined. Data are from two studies of Mexican American adults. The Border Survey conducted face-to-face interviews in urban U.S.–Mexico border counties of California, Arizona, New ...
Hispanic Americans, people living in the United States who are descendants of Spanish-speaking peoples. Since most Hispanics trace their ancestry to Latin America, they are also called Latinos. Hispanics make up the largest ethnic minority in the United
Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompa...
As the proportion of North American settlers in these lands multiplied, however, they began to request greater local autonomy, feared the possibility that Mexico might outlaw slavery, and resented the imposition of taxes from the government in Mexico City (Oscar Martínez, The Handbook of Hispanic ...
In addition, our study showed that mtDNA copy number in leukocytes was significantly affected by social-demographic characteristics, including age, gender, birth place (Mexico vs US), years of living in the US, body mass index (BMI), and physical activity13. Among Mexican American adults in ...
Public health initiatives to immunize children and adults have effectively reduced the number of tetanus cases in the USA. However, in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ( NHANES III), immigrants from Mexico had a 67% non-protective anti-tetanus antibody (ATA) level. Less...
say they livepaycheck to paycheck, according to CNBC and SurveyMonkey's recent Your Money International Financial Security Survey, which polled 498 U.S. adults. That's a slight increase fromlast year's results, which found that 58% of Americans considered themselves to be living paycheck to pa...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Mexican American (redirected fromMexican-americans) Mexican American n. A US citizen or resident of Mexican ancestry. Mex′i·can-A·mer′i·canadj.
The change adds, at most conservative, 700,000 adult illegal immigrants living in California’s sanctuary cities to the Medi-Cal rolls and is anticipated to cost $3.1 billion per year. But, by federal law, California cannot use federal taxpayer dollars to fund the program. So how does Califo...
Southwestern Native Americans Where did they live? Native Americans lived in the region that included what is today Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, and Utah. What tribes settled here? This area had two main tribes that settled here long ago. The Hopi and the Zuni. ...