ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
Behavioral and Environmental Explanations of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants.
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- Lead Screening Among Immigrant Children Seeking Humanitarian Protection in New York and Massachusetts, 2022-2024.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2026Article
- Exposure to Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic Among Asian and Non-Asian Children and Adolescents in the United States: NHANES 2015-2018.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Prevention Barriers Related to Childhood Lead Poisoning Among Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Parents in Northeast Ohio, United States.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Federal Housing Assistance and Blood Lead Levels in a Nationally Representative US Sample Age 6 and Older: NHANES, 1999-2018.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- The influence of contemporary and emerging factors on blood lead concentrations among young males in conflict with the law: a case study from a middle-income country.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2024Article
- Relationship Between Primary Language Spoken at Home and Blood Lead Levels in Children from Northeast Ohio, United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Ammunition Waste Pollution and Preliminary Assessment of Risks to Child Health from Toxic Metals at the Greek Refugee Camp Mavrovouni.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Improved Decision-Making: A Sociotechnical Utility-Based Framework for Drinking Water Investment.ACS ES&T engineering · 2022Article
- The urban lead (Pb) burden in humans, animals and the natural environment.Environmental research · 2021Review
- Lead Exposure in Newly Resettled Pediatric Refugees in Syracuse, NY.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Article
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- Determinants of Erythrocyte Lead Levels in 454 Adults in Florence, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Lead Exposure and Associated Risk Factors among New Migrant Children Arriving in Greece.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children: Assessment of Criteria and a Proposal for New Ones in France.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Trends in Elevated Blood Lead Levels Using 5 and 10 µg/dL Levels of Concern Among Refugee Children Resettled in Massachusetts, 1998-2015.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
Immigrant/refugee children sometimes have substantially higher blood lead levels (BLLs) than US-born children in similar environments. We try to understand why, by exploring the relationship between immigration status of mother and the BLLs of US-born children. We compared BLLs of children born in Michigan to immigrant and non-immigrant parents, using the Michigan database of BLL tests for 2002-2005, which includes the child's race, Medicaid eligibility and address. We added census data on socio-demographic/housing characteristics of the child's block group, and information about parents. Low parental education, single parent households, mothers' smoking and drinking, all increase the child's BLL. However, immigrant parents had fewer characteristics associated with high BLL than US born parents, and their children had lower BLLs than children of US-born mothers. Our findings suggest that prior findings of higher BLLs among immigrant/refugee children probably result from them starting life in high-lead environments.
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