Health and development among Mexican, black and white preschool children: An integrative approach using latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Building on an emerging scientific consensus that the concept of child health should encompass chronic conditions, functional abilities, and developmental domains, we delineate the multidimensional health statuses of Mexican, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white preschool children in the United States. This integrative approach provides the foundation for an in-depth analysis of health disparities.

Objective

The research objectives are: (1) to demonstrate a new methodological approach to identifying the major child health statuses; (2) to document differences in the prevalence of those health statuses among children in the largest ethnoracial groups in the U.S.; and (3) to assess whether key sources of disadvantage account for ethnoracial disparities in chil

SUBMITTER: Landale NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4105264 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature