SynthesisJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review.
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- Understanding the Healthy Immigrant Effect in the Context of Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Critical Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Pooled it
- Social determinants of health and child maltreatment: a systematic review.Pediatric research · 2021Pooled it
- Consequences of child emotional abuse, emotional neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence for eating disorders: a systematic critical review.BMC psychology · 2017Pooled it
- The Influence of Child Welfare Involvement on Parent Engagement Among Immigrant Families Who Receive Home Visiting Services.Child maltreatment · 2026Article
- Utilizing the Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory in a cohort of children with early childhood caries.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2025Article
- Penalized distributed lag interaction model: Air pollution, birth weight, and neighborhood vulnerability.Environmetrics · 2024Article
- Minor Forms of Parental Maltreatment and Educational Achievement of Immigrant Youths in Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Race/ethnicity, immigrant generation, and physiological dysregulation among U.S. adults entering midlife.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Do socioeconomic and birth order gradients in child maltreatment differ by immigrant status?Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2021Article
- Research on Injury Disparities: A Scoping Review.Health equity · 2019Article
- Risk factors for maltreatment-related infant hospitalizations in New York City, 1995-2004.Annals of epidemiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Prior studies suggest that foreign-born individuals have a health advantage, referred to as the Healthy Immigrant Paradox, when compared to native-born persons of the same socio-economic status. This systematic review examined whether the immigrant advantage found in health literature is mirrored by child maltreatment in general and its forms in particular. The author searched Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, CINAHL PLUS, Family and Society Studies Worldwide, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Social Work Abstracts, and SocINdex for published literature through December 2015. The review followed an evidence-based Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist. The author identified 822 unique articles, of which 19 met the inclusion criteria. The reviewed data showed strong support for the healthy immigrant paradox for a general form of maltreatment and physical abuse. The evidence for emotional and sexual abuse was also suggestive of immigrant advantage though relatively small sample size and lack of multivariate controls make these findings tentative. The evidence for neglect was mixed: immigrants were less likely to be reported to Child Protective Services; however, they had higher rates of physical neglect and lack of supervision in the community data. The study results warrant confirmation with newer data possessing strong external validity for immigrant samples.
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